Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
I remember reading something by an early church father, or a monk who described Jesus as very dark skinned.
By today's standards how black would Jesus be? Blacker than Obama?
seriously.
Profiling at an airport: would Jesus fit the description of a suspected terrorist?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_of_Jesus
4th century depiction...
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Saidnaya_Jesus.jpg
Middle Eastern icon of Jesus from Saidnaya, Syria
By today's standards how black would Jesus be? Blacker than Obama?
seriously.
Profiling at an airport: would Jesus fit the description of a suspected terrorist?
The race of Jesus has been a subject of debate since at least the nineteenth century. The physical appearance of Jesus of Nazareth was debated by theologians from early on in the history of Christianity, though with no explicit emphasis on race.
Different societies have depicted Jesus and most other biblical figures as their own ethnicity in their art; for example he is primarily white in the West. The current dominant opinion among historians and scientists is that he was most likely a Galilean Jew and thus would have features which resemble modern-day persons of Middle Eastern or Semitic descent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_of_Jesus
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_of_Jesus
4th century depiction...
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Saidnaya_Jesus.jpg
Middle Eastern icon of Jesus from Saidnaya, Syria
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