Nicholas Peter Legh Allen M.F.A. (RU), M.A. (NMMU), M.Th. (NWU), Ph.D. (NWU), D.Phil. (UKZN), Laur. Tech. F.A. (PET). Professor emeritus, Professor ad hominem. Rated Researcher (C1) with the South African National Research Foundation. Nicholas Allen is both an historian and an artist. He has authored and co-authored numerous academic books and accredited scientific articles on various topics including Art History, New Testament, Cognate and Deuterocanonical Literature, Sindonology and the History of Judaism and Christianity. Other books by the author include: • The Turin Shroud and the Crystal Lens. Port Elizabeth: Empowerment Technologies, 1998. • Turin Shroud: Testament to a Lost Technology, Beau Bassin: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017. • Christian Forgery in Jewish Antiquities: Josephus Interrupted. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. Co-edited books: • Allen N.P.L. and Pierre J. Jordaan, eds. Construction, Coherence and Connotations: Studies on the Septuagint, Apocryphal and Cognate Literature. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Publishers, 2016. • Allen, N.P.L., Pierre J. Jordaan and József Zsengellér, eds. Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature. London: Routledge, 2020. • Allen, N.P.L. and Pierre J. Jordaan, eds. Rhetoric in 2Maccabees: Challenging God. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. • Allen, N.P.L. and J.J.T. Doedens, eds. Turmoil, Trauma and Tenacity in Early Jewish Literature, Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, Vol. 50. Berlin: William de Gruyter, 2022. Documentaries: Television documentaries which have featured Allen’s photographic hypothesis as regards the manufacture of the negative image of Christ on the Shroud of Turin: • Shroud of Turin. B.B.C. Tomorrow's World, 1995. • Double Exposure: Shroud of Turin. B.B.C. Everyman, 1995. • Leonardo: The Man Behind the Shroud? National Geographic Channel, 2002. • Shroud of Christ? B.B.C. Channel Four, 2004. • Leonardo’s Shroud? Discovery Channel, 2009. • Treasures Decoded: The Turin Shroud. Discovery Channel, 2013. • Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery. CNN Science Channel, 2015.
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