Sorry folks don’t mean to party poop. Thought I I’ll just leave this here.
In 1988, an international team of scientific experts performed radiocarbon dating on snippets of the Shroud of Turin. The results showed that the famous cloth did not date back to the time of Christ’s crucifixion in the first century A.D. In fact, the cloth seemed to have been manufactured sometime between 1260 and 1390 A.D. The team concluded the Shroud was nothing more than a medieval hoax. — PBS “Secrets of the Dead - Shroud of Christ?” 2004
But rather Jesus’ appearance would have more likely resembled an early eastern Semitic man.
Assuming Jesus to be a native West Asian Galilean Semite, the study concluded in conjunction with Mark Goodacre that he would have appeared 'Middle Eastern' and his skin would have been "olive-coloured" and "swarthy".
— BBC “Son of God” 2001 docuseries
shroud scholars have been increasingly all over this result the last few decades - there's a lot of contention that samples were taken from repaired sections and not from the original cloth. politics. plenty of scholarly differences of opinion out there.
Sorry folks don’t mean to party poop. Thought I I’ll just leave this here.
But rather Jesus’ appearance would have more likely resembled an early eastern Semitic man.
Other than that, bravo AI. Fascinating. 👏
shroud scholars have been increasingly all over this result the last few decades - there's a lot of contention that samples were taken from repaired sections and not from the original cloth. politics. plenty of scholarly differences of opinion out there.