From GNXP, here is Anglican Curmudgeon on the Virgin Birth. Specifically: Luke's, and Justin's; against Matthew's.
The Curmudgeon brings the Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium. (Also brought up: Veronica's napkin. I also wonder about that Mandylion of Edessa.) The stains on both are blood, from a human. That blood was AB type and didn't have male DNA markers. The conclusion is that Jesus had no Y chromosome. He was an XX male. (That at least would bolster the feminised Jesus portraits rife throughout popular Catholicism, for instance pictured here.)
If these two are from the same ... person, then that person was genetically not Joseph's child. Luke was right to trace the Davidic succession through Mary; Matthew, who did it through Joseph, was wrong.
These samples further knock out the Bar Pantera hypothesis.
If, that is, all the Tradition and the blood-sampling may be independently verified.
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