The Jesus Conspiracy
by Kersten, Holger; Gruber, Elmar R.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1994-04-01
Publisher(s): Element Books Ltd
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Summary
Seeking to disprove the 1988 carbon-dating that declared the Shroud a forgery, this controversial study makes conclusions about Church's support of the declaration, the authenticity of the Shroud, and the question of Jesus' death on the cross.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Preface | |
| The Old Relic and Modern Science | p. 1 |
| Traces in the Linen | p. 2 |
| Revelations of Photography | p. 5 |
| Authenticity Doubted | p. 8 |
| The Beginnings of Scientific Research | p. 12 |
| New Photographs - New Finds | p. 18 |
| The Surgeon and the Cloth | p. 21 |
| The Linen Tested | p. 23 |
| The Incision | p. 24 |
| Pollen Traces Lead to the Holy Land | p. 26 |
| State of the Art Technology Exposes Secrets | p. 29 |
| Is it Blood on the Cloth? | p. 32 |
| The Problem of Image Formation | p. 35 |
| The Relic in the Laboratory | p. 36 |
| Arguments About Who Gets the Job | p. 38 |
| The 'Radiocarbon Mafia' | p. 43 |
| The Textile Researcher and the Holy Cloth | p. 47 |
| Zurich: A Laboratory Visit | p. 52 |
| London: The British Shroud Society | p. 61 |
| Dr Tite and the 'Indisputable Facts' | p. 67 |
| Clue-Hunting in Museum Archives | p. 70 |
| Oxford: The Vanishing Professor | p. 71 |
| The Article in Nature | p. 74 |
| The Vestment of Saint Louis | p. 77 |
| An Unexpected Letter from Oxford | p. 81 |
| Hunting for Evidence | p. 83 |
| Turin: 'Journalists are Dangerous' | p. 85 |
| Paris: The Symposium of Shroud Researchers | p. 87 |
| The Photographs Prove the Deception | p. 90 |
| The Cloth in the Shadows of History | p. 101 |
| In Pursuit of the 'True Shroud' | p. 102 |
| The Story of King Abgar | p. 106 |
| The Miraculous Portrait of the Saviour | p. 111 |
| The Discovery of the Mandylion | p. 117 |
| Abgar and the Messenger of Jesus | p. 121 |
| The Portrait is Rescued | p. 126 |
| How the Shroud Became the Mandylion | p. 128 |
| Miraculous Images in Early Christianity | p. 136 |
| Developments in the Image of Christ | p. 144 |
| The Original Image of Christ in Edessa | p. 150 |
| The Mandylion Comes to Constantinople | p. 163 |
| A Secret is Revealed | p. 170 |
| The Portrait of Christ and the Fourth Crusade | p. 176 |
| The Shroud Disappears | p. 183 |
| The Templars' Manoeuvre | p. 190 |
| The Power and Secrets of the Order of the Knights Templar | p. 196 |
| The Mysterious Idol of the Templars | p. 201 |
| The Shroud Resurfaces | p. 211 |
| Excursus: A Historical Puzzle | p. 218 |
| The 'Official Story' | p. 222 |
| The Secrets of Golgotha | p. 227 |
| Two Burials in St John's Chapel | p. 228 |
| In the Lord's Tomb | p. 231 |
| The Mysterious 'Aromatic Substances' | p. 236 |
| Jesus and the Essenes | p. 238 |
| On Dying on the Cross | p. 243 |
| The Side Wound and the Miracle Drink | p. 249 |
| The Open Rock Tomb | p. 254 |
| The Linen Clothes in the Sepulchre | p. 259 |
| Resurrected or Arisen? | p. 264 |
| Transmission of the Secret Knowledge | p. 268 |
| Fraud of the Century | p. 277 |
| Jesus: The 'Man of the Shroud' | p. 278 |
| The Image of a Living Person | p. 281 |
| Revealing Blood Marks | p. 286 |
| How the Image was Formed | p. 294 |
| A Needle in a Haystack | p. 301 |
| A Disturbing Suspicion | p. 304 |
| Splendour and Rot of the Great Experiment | p. 313 |
| Masks of the Conspirators | p. 319 |
| Investigations by a French Detective | p. 324 |
| Chronology of the Untold Events | p. 328 |
| Afterword | p. 337 |
| Notes | p. 342 |
| Bibliography | p. 353 |
| Index | p. 365 |
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