THE TURIN SHROUD

Im Wi

The Turin Shroud has lain for eenturies wrapped in mystery and controversy. Recently, modern scientific methods have produced such startling evidence for its authenticity as to make it itupossible for those who have studied it to dimis the posibility that it once shrouded the body of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago,

Negative photographs show the outline of a bearded man, com plete with the traditional Jewah pigtail of hair, with the exact type of wounds that would be consistent with flogging, with cruxifixion and with a spear thrust. Analyse of the image has established no trace of paint, but instead the action of some mysterious radiation process. Dust samples show conclusively that the shroud was once in Palestine,

In this masterly synthesis specially updated for the Penguin edition Jan Wibon draws together all the historical and scientific threads of the story, and offers his own persuasive and scholarly explanation of the Shroud's 'missing years'. His book 'thrills and out-baffles any detective story': it will, as one reviewer put it, "have a profound impact not alone on those who believe inherently in the truth of the Gospels but on many of those who do not.'