Well, of the non-supernatural ideas I've seen suggested, the idea of chemical excretions sounds relatively plausible.
And as to the de Molay idea: Lomas and Knight speculate that de Molay, who was accused of mocking Christ, might have been thus tortured in a way similar to Jesus. An observation that sounds a bit less speculative, though, is that the image on the Shroud appears more likely to be that of a medieval European than that of a first-century Palestinian.
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Re: temple
Date: 2004-04-06 10:06 pm (UTC)And as to the de Molay idea: Lomas and Knight speculate that de Molay, who was accused of mocking Christ, might have been thus tortured in a way similar to Jesus. An observation that sounds a bit less speculative, though, is that the image on the Shroud appears more likely to be that of a medieval European than that of a first-century Palestinian.