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02 Sep 2007, 6:10 pm
I saw some artistic renderings of what Jesus might look like based on real data of people living in the region at the time(presumable tissue reconstruction on skulls).
Which suggest the images created by painters after his death have no relationship to reality.
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03 Sep 2007, 12:05 pm
The Wife has mentioned to me in the past and I just asked again. Blue eyes are known for the Galilee area about his time. Not that it really matters, one of her degrees is in Anthro, it's her thing. She's generally right, unless I disagree. 
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I thought the exact same thing
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04 Sep 2007, 2:58 pm
Great, another thread that's meant to offend Christians.
Of course not, in the same way that he didn't marry Mary Magdelene and go to live in Europe.
04 Sep 2007, 3:16 pm
I saw some artistic renderings of what Jesus might look like based on real data of people living in the region at the time(presumable tissue reconstruction on skulls).
Which suggest the images created by painters after his death have no relationship to reality.
I had remarked earlier on WP that this image seemed a fairly accurate portrait of the historical Jesus, to me. But, upon asking my scholarly friend about it, he said it's inaccurate in a few ways -- namely, the hair. Jewish men had much longer hair than the picture shows. It was the Greeks and Romans who had the short hair. The "long-haired Jesus" depictions are more accurate.
...Which lends an interesting interpretation of the New Testament verse that says men shouldn't have "long hair". In the cultural perspective of the time, it's clearly not referring to shoulder-length hair as being "long", as that would be normal. Rather, waist-length hair was considered "long" -- the hair length that all women had, and were told to. ... Sorry, just dazed out for a second, picturing a world of long-haired women... ya...
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04 Sep 2007, 3:32 pm
Great, another thread that's meant to offend Christians.
The ladies started a bunch of threads the day this was put up, only a couple survived the moreraters. I fully suspect the painting remark I made went zipping over their heads. They sure don't make trolls like they use to. Shame, it's almost becoming a lost art.
It will only offend if we let it. Bottom line as I see it, no one will ever know for sure. So believe what you like. I don't happen to believe he was or it would have been brought out by his critics someplace along the line. My opinion and like I said, it's all opinion at this date. I have gay friends I like just fine, wouldn't treat any body differently on purpose. Including him if he decided for a return visit.
