empty (except for spices) and virtually undisturbed. This last factor, many Christians deduce, is what made the beloved disciple "see and believe" (John 20.8). One wonders also if he and Peter actually

dividing them into oils, incenses and spices. Given that she mentions some 40 possible plants, it is hardly surprising that she finds some of them on the Shroud. However, Boi makes far too much of

included in the “spices” referred to in the gospels (Luke 24:1, Mark 16:1). See further at http://www.wildflowers.co.il/english/plant.asp?ID=228. 12. D. Murra and P. Di Lazzaro, “Sight and brain:

evidence of any spices, oils, or any biochemicals known to be produced by the body in life or in death. It is clear that there has been a direct contact of the Shroud with a body, which explains

cruor, blood from a wound) and burial spices in the rock-cut tomb.17 Of course there will be degradation of ancient blood to some degree, but the general conditions should retard total loss, e.g. burial

Good Friday verses about Joseph of Arimathea and the spice-bearing, mourning women. On the border of the shroud on which Jesus lies can also be seen the twill weave reminiscent of the Turin Shroud's (

daybreak on the first day of the week they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.”60 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while

thurible rather than spices. PAGE 18 JUNE 2015 BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE TURIN SHROUD NEWSLETTER 80 !While only two of the last four illustrations show the skewed slab, it continued to be a common

the three Marys, carrying spices, approaching the empty tomb, and an angel usually perched on the improbably angled lid of a sarcophagus containing nothing but a couple of crumpled grave- cloths. Dozens

natural and accidental interaction of solar rays and the spices used to anoint the body. Part Three deals with the modern scientific, epistemological, philosophical and ethical implications of the authenticity