http://aldenswan.com/2008/05/faith-science-a-shroud-of-mystery/ free speech, critical thinking, and really good coffee Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://aldenswan.com/2008/05/faith-science-a-shroud-of-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-794 me Thu, 22 May 2008 16:10:41 +0000 http://www.aldenswan.com/?p=399#comment-794 I had wondered about that, too, but apparently the Jews didn't mummy-wrap people, as the Egyptians did. Assuming they could afford to bury them in the first place, they'd drape the bodies in cloth & spices, then after a couple of years the bones were removed and put in ossuaries, as they used less space. Then there'd be room to lay out more bodies. That's why it's mentioned in three of the Gospels that this was a new tomb- otherwise there could have been other bodies, or at least ossuaries, in there as well. I had wondered about that, too, but apparently the Jews didn’t mummy-wrap people, as the Egyptians did. Assuming they could afford to bury them in the first place, they’d drape the bodies in cloth & spices, then after a couple of years the bones were removed and put in ossuaries, as they used less space. Then there’d be room to lay out more bodies. That’s why it’s mentioned in three of the Gospels that this was a new tomb- otherwise there could have been other bodies, or at least ossuaries, in there as well.

]]> http://aldenswan.com/2008/05/faith-science-a-shroud-of-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-795 Mike Haubrich, FCD Thu, 22 May 2008 11:27:27 +0000 http://www.aldenswan.com/?p=399#comment-795 The thing I always found troublesome about the shroud was that the image is an overlay of person as if the cloth were laid on top of the body, rather than wrapped around a body. The thing I always found troublesome about the shroud was that the image is an overlay of person as if the cloth were laid on top of the body, rather than wrapped around a body.

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