Sworn To Secrecy — Sample

Table of Contents

Preface — Background to the Shroud and its documented history.

1. Chapter 1 — The Trial, the Judge, and Counsel — The courtroom is constituted and the rules are set.
2. Chapter 2 — Opening Statements — The prosecution and the defense outline their cases.
3. Chapter 3 — Witness Testimonies — Lay and expert witnesses present factual accounts.
4. Chapter 4 — Expert Analyses — Scientific examinations, methods, and interpretations.
5. Chapter 5 — Historical Documents — Letters, inventories, and archival materials are reviewed.
6. Chapter 6 — Image Formation — Competing hypotheses and their evidential strengths.
7. Chapter 7 — Scientific Findings — What microscopy, spectroscopy, textile study, and sampling indicate.
8. Chapter 8 — Counterarguments — Critical assessments and alternative explanations.
9. Chapter 9 — Summation — Counsel and judge synthesize the evidence before the jury.
10. Chapter 10 — The Verdicts — The decisions are delivered and the knight learns his fate.

Book Appendices (only with purchase of book)

• Appendix A: Illustration from the Hungarian Pray Codex (late 12th century).
• Appendix B: Letter from Pierre d’Arcis to Pope Clement VII of Avignon.
• Appendix C: Selected Biblical prophecies by Dr. Rabbi Friedmann.
• Appendix D: Calculations of dates for the first and second coming of Christ (from The Man Clothed in Linen by Don Leichel).