BODY OF CHRIST Giulio Fanti, of the University of Padua, Italy, created a 3D image which he says shows Christ’s body after he was crucified and wrapped in the Shroud of Turin.
Is This What Jesus Looked Like on Earth?
U
sing the latest scanning technology, an Italian
engineer created a 3D image that, he claims, shows Christ’s body after he was crucified and wrapped in the Shroud of Turin. It is currently the most
scientifically reliable 3D model of the image impressed on the Shroud. “This statue is the three- dimensional representation in actual size of the ‘Man of the Shroud,’” explains Giulio Fanti, a teacher of mechanical and thermal measurements at the University of Padua, Italy. “We believe that we finally
have the precise image of what Jesus looked like on this Earth.” Fanti, one of the world’s
leading researchers of the Shroud, told the Italian magazine Chi: “According to our studies, Jesus was a man of extraordinary beauty. Long- limbed, but very robust, he was nearly 5 feet, 11 inches tall, whereas the average height at the time was around 5 feet, 5 inches. And he had a regal and majestic expression.” Using 3D projection, Fanti said he was able to count the
numerous wounds on the body. “On the Shroud,” the
professor explains, “I counted 370 wounds from the flagellation, without taking into account the wounds on his sides, which the Shroud doesn’t show because it only enveloped the back and front of the body. “We can assume at least
600 blows. In addition, the 3D reconstruction has made it possible to discover that at the moment of his death, the ‘Man of the Shroud’ sagged down toward the right, because his right shoulder was dislocated so seriously as to injure the nerves.”
The image would indicate the man had suffered the horror of a Roman crucifixion — scourging, nail puncture wounds of the wrists and feet, bruised knees, and a side spear wound — consistent with the torments of Jesus described in the Gospel of John. Fanti’s study dates the
shroud to between 300 B.C. and A.D. 400, a 700-year interval that brackets the death of Christ.
Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly be- cause he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had vis- ited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seven- ty-five pounds. Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.” (John 19: 38-42)
The burial depicted by the man on the
Shroud matches that of first-century Jew- ish contemporaries. The cloth is roughly 14 feet and 3 inches
long by 3 feet and 7 inches wide, a number consistent with other Judean burial sites at the time, and consistent with the measures used by ancient Jews, a perfect match of 8 cubits long and 2 cubits wide. It also would be considered an expen-
sive linen with a rare complex herring- bone twill pattern, a fact suggesting that a wealthy man did provide for the cloth. Several other cultural and religious in-
dicators are also present on the Shroud. A band approximately 2 inches wide ap-
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