Thursday, February 25, 2010

Book wanted: Scannerini & Savarino, "The Turin Shroud: Past, Present and Future" (2000)

I today (4th February 2013) finally hold in my hand this rare book which I have long sought! What's more it appears to be as new, to have never been read. Praise to Him whose image He caused to be imprinted on His Shroud!

I have for a long time been trying, but without success, to buy the

[Above (click to enlarge): "The Turin Shroud: Past, Present and Future" (2000): Effatà Editrice]

book, Scannerini, S. & Savarino, P., eds, "The Turin Shroud: Past, Present and Future," International Scientific Symposium, Torino 2-5 March 2000: Effatà: Cantalupe, Italy.

Effatà Editrice has it on its website but I cannot understand Italian to work out how to buy it (if indeed it can be bought from them). Besides Effatà Editrice replied to my email that they don't post books to Australia, and thereafter has ignored my subsequent emails.

I have also tried Internet book searches, including Advanced Book Exchange, Amazon.com, BookFinder, and eBay, but all these to date have drawn a blank.

So if anyone knows where or how this book can be bought, whether new or second hand, could they please indicate it in a comment to this post below? Thanks.

Stephen E. Jones, BSc. (Biology).
My other blogs: CreationEvolutionDesign (inactive) & Jesus is Jehovah! (inactive)

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Ian Wilson's new book: "The Shroud: The 2000-Year-Old Mystery Solved"

I suspected that Ian Wilson might write a new book on the

[Above (click to enlarge): Cover of Wilson, I., "The Shroud: The 2000-Year-Old Mystery Solved," Bantam Press, 2010]

Shroud, to coincide with its exhibition from 10 April to 23 May this year.

Well this morning (4 February) I was searching for newly listed books on the Shroud, using Advanced Book Exchange's Most Recently Listed option, which I rarely do, when I hit the jackpot:


The Shroud (ISBN: 0593063597 / 0-593-06359-7 ) Ian Wilson ... Bookseller: El Pinarillo Books (member of IOBA) (London, UK, United Kingdom) ... About the Book Bibliographic Details Publisher: Bantam Press Publication Date: 2010-03-04 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: New Edition: Book Type: Book Description: Preorder your copy. Published on 2010/03/04. ... Editorial Reviews: Synopsis:

The tide has turned. Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brand-new historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary photographic imprint, is genuinely Christ's shroud after all: in Turkey, the recent finding of a 6th century mosaic face of Christ has startling implications for the Shroud's veracity; in the Sinai desert recent manuscript discoveries provide evidence which refute scientific claims that the Shroud can date no earlier than 1260; in Rome a Vatican archivist has discovered a hitherto unknown manuscript that sheds exciting new light on the Shroud's authenticity; and, in Bern, Switzerland the veteran textile specialist who gave the Shroud its 2002 'makeover' has uncovered hitherto hidden technical features linking it to first century Palestine. In 1978 in his international bestseller The Turin Shroud Ian Wilson ignited worldwide public debate with his compelling case endorsing the shroud's authenticity. Now, 30 years later, he has completely rewritten and updated his earlier book to provide fresh evidence to support his original argument. Shroud boldly challenges the current post-radiocarbon dating view - that it is a fake. By arguing his case brilliantly and provocatively, Ian Wilson once more throws the matter into the public arena for further debate and controversy.


I then Googled: Ian Wilson Shroud "Mystery Solved" and I hit my second jackpot:


The Shroud: The 2000-Year-Old Mystery Solved
Ian Wilson

Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brand-new historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary photographic imprint, is genuinely Christ's shroud after all.

In 1978 in his international bestseller The Turin Shroud Ian Wilson ignited worldwide public debate with his compelling case endorsing the shroud's authenticity. Now, 30 years later, he has completely rewritten and updated his earlier book to provide fresh evidence to support his original argument. Shroud boldly challenges the current post-radiocarbon dating view - that it is a fake. By arguing his case brilliantly and provocatively, Ian Wilson once more throws the matter into the public arena for further debate and controversy.

RRP:$45.00ISBN:9780593063606
Format:Trade PaperbackImprint:Bantam Press
Subject:Non-Fic GeneralRelease:05 March 2010


Borders is also listing the book as "coming soon." Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com and Booktopia are now listing the book for pre-order. Australian Christian bookseller Koorong Books, is also listing the book for pre-order.

I predict that, given the renewed public interest in the Shroud, that this will be a best seller, if not a blockbuster!

Maybe Wilson's new book will help fulfill his 1991 feeling (which I take as a prediction) that, "the shroud, even now, frail and discredited as it might seem, is part of a cosmic drama not yet played out":

"In the shroud we have a piece of cloth that men cast lots over when they put it to the test (remember the cowboy boots?). A piece of cloth they mocked when their instruments of destruction showed it, seemingly, as of mere human frailty. Is it not all strikingly evocative of what they did when they committed the body of Jesus himself to crucifixion and the grave? And did not something mind- blowingly unexpected happen to this, just when Jesus's followers felt at their most defeated? It all gives one the unnerving feeling that the shroud, even now, frail and discredited as it might seem, is part of a cosmic drama not yet played out." (Wilson, I., "Holy Faces, Secret Places: The Quest for Jesus' True Likeness," Doubleday: London, 1991, p.189).

Stephen E. Jones, BSc. (Biology).
My other blogs: CreationEvolutionDesign & Jesus is Jehovah!

Updated: 27 July 2015