Jabba wrote:
– First off, I’m not sure how this blogging thing works, but I can use some help from people who know a lot about the Shroud of Turin — and, from what I’ve read so far, you guys know a lot. I have some questions.
– I read somewhere that the proper Jewish shroud in the first century would have been wrapped around the body like the wrapping of a mummy. Somewhere else, I read that the wrapping displayed by the Shroud of Turin was the proper way. But, I can’t remember where I read either one… I’m getting pretty old.
– Which is it? And, where can I find a good citation.
– Thanks.
I recommend starting with an excellent paper by Diana Fulbright: “A Clean Cloth: What Greek Word Usage Tells Us about the Burial Wrappings of Jesus” I think you will find the answers you seek in this paper – from which the above graphic was taken. I will ask others and hopefully we may have some additional suggestions for you.
Episcopal,
– Thanks.
– That was so easy!
and do not forget: 1) Jesus’burial was not a completed burial; 2) it was the burial of a man who died violently and was covered with blood.
I quote from Ian Wilson:
“As any true expert in Jewish burial tradition will point out, the particular deceased person whom we see on the Shroud will have needed some very different funerary arrangments, because he self-evidently died a violent death – i.e. crucifixion – during wich his body became extensively stained with his life-blood. […] As explained by Victor Tunkel [Faculty of Laws, Queen Mary College, University of London], in the case of a heavily bloodstained corpse the ritual required as much avoidance as possible of any disturbing of the blood… The sovev [the shroud/sheet] therefore had to be an all-enveloping cloth that is a single sheet used to go right round the entire body.” (Ian Wilson, The Blood and the Shroud, p. 64-65)
Archaeologically speacking, we don’t have any incomplet first burial or a first burial of a man violently deceased.
domenico,
– Thanks also.
– I seem to have stumbled upon a treasure trove…