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Thread #77817 Message #1397151
Posted By: AggieD
02-Feb-05 - 05:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: What did Jesus look like?
Subject: RE: BS: What did Jesus look like?
As a Jew who is interested in this discussion, I haven't read closely all the posts, but I have to say 2 Millenia down the line there are still an awful lot of curly haired Jews out there, me being one of them.
In fact my hair is so woolly as to be almost comparable to that of many black people. Many of us have the 'typical' reddish/black hair that still lingers from the thousands of years of marriage with only one racial type.
My husband has the colouring that is thought very typical of the Semitic colouring, he has in various parts of the world been taken from any of the typical Middle Eastern/Mediterranean residents to being Kashmiri when we were in India. In fact his skin colouring is not much lighter than some of our friends from India.
I would think that the many of you who have supposed Jesus would be very much like the modern day residents of the Middle East, wouldn't be far wrong. He would almost certainly have been dark skinned, he would most probably have had a beard, I would say that like other peoples of that era he would have been fairly short, and as a tradesman would have been pretty stocky. There is also the possibilty that the man would have been saddled with the large nose that is still very prominent (oops sorry!!!) in the Middle East of today.
I very much doubt that he would have been as black, as African or Afro/Americans.