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Forensic facial expert reconstructs Jesus Christ's face using ancient skulls (Link Only)
The Independent UK (link Only) - - Text body by Swordmaker | December 14, 2015 | By Rose Troup Buchanan

Posted on 12/14/2015 3:07:42 PM PST by Swordmaker

Test Body by Swordmaker - The Independent (UK) is resurrecting this time worn reconstruction from about ten years ago, based on averaging multiple skulls found in Israel, claiming this is what Jesus must have looked like.


Dr. Forensic Anthropologist Richard Neave's Reconstructon of Jesus

Many anthropologists debunked the claims, pointing out that Jewish population of 1st Century Israel and Galilee were not limited to a single genotype and also included about 30% taller Aryan genotype now referred to as "High Noble Semite/Arabs."

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Forensic facial expert reconstructs Jesus Christ's face using ancient skulls


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To: Swordmaker

I always favored the depiction of Christ as it appears on the wall of the Haigha Sophia in Constantinople


21 posted on 12/14/2015 3:37:05 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Swordmaker

This is not intended to be an impertinent or sacrilegious question. Assuming Jesus was the son of God, and conceived without earthly insemination, why would he necessarily be genetically similar or identical to the Jewish population of the area? In other words, he could have looked entirely different from the typical Nazarene.


22 posted on 12/14/2015 3:38:24 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Yup! And he still looks like that guy that used to play in a lot of “spaghetti westerns.”

Yeah, the "bad guy."

23 posted on 12/14/2015 3:39:31 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Swordmaker

How absurd! Without a painting, or at least some reasonable description of Jesus’ physical features, nobody knows. This is nonsense. For all anyone knows, Jesus looked like Jason Alexander.

This is the same kind of mental masturbation as “could G-d make a rock so big and heavy that He couldn’t lift it?”


24 posted on 12/14/2015 3:40:16 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Swordmaker

Why the “deer in headlights” look?


25 posted on 12/14/2015 3:40:36 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

my first thought, too. What’s the with the “duh, I’m clueless” look?


26 posted on 12/14/2015 3:41:32 PM PST by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: chulaivn66
I declined the offer...p> Well, that's it, you're on the DOWN elevator! :>)
27 posted on 12/14/2015 3:41:56 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Swordmaker

And his nose got smashed when they turned the cross over to hammer the nails in place.

28 posted on 12/14/2015 3:42:09 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: Ancesthntr
“could G-d make a rock so big and heavy that He couldn’t lift it?”

If Superman could lift it, and he could, so could God.

29 posted on 12/14/2015 3:44:04 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Slyfox

30 posted on 12/14/2015 3:50:25 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Swordmaker
Starting to look like Hagrid


31 posted on 12/14/2015 3:52:35 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

His screen name is “Bud Spencer”.


32 posted on 12/14/2015 3:58:56 PM PST by rfp1234 (Hail Obambi, our Deer Leader)
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To: Bidimus1
The portraits of a 6ft tall Italian with long then features is a creation of the painters.

Actually, no. It's taken from the image on the Shroud of Turin, thought to be the burial Shroud of Jesus, which depicts in reverse sepia tones, the image of a man who was scourged, crucified, pierced in the side with a Roman lancia, and bears the wounds on the head from what appears to have been a crown of thorns. He is approximately 5' 10" tall.


Shroud of Turin Face, right: positive, left: Negative

That's well within the height range of semitic people of the Jerusalem area of the 1st Century (a census of the femurs of males from a 1st-2nd Century Jewish cemetery found that the average height of Jewish men was 5' 8.25" inches. Compare that to the average height of modern American males of 5' 8.375". The Roman conquerors of the Israel area averaged only 5' 5.125" tall.

Hair and eye color is certainly an artistic choice. . . but iconography show many points of congruence between the Shroud and art depicting Jesus. . . including those which depict Jesus with black hair or dark brown hair and brown eyes such as the depiction of 13th Century Christ Pantocrator Mosaic from the Hagia Sophia:


Christ Pantocrator

Note in the Negative on the Shroud of Turin photo, there is an apparent swelling under the left eye (actually the right eye as it is reversed). Look at the Mosaic and you will see a replication of that swelling on the right eye. Even the swelling of that cheek is replicated and depicted.


Pantokrator of the Sinai, c. 7th Century

This pantokrator is six hundred years older and ALSO shows the same marks of congruences with the Shroud of Turin. Same swellings and eye differences. There are far more points of congruity than just these.

33 posted on 12/14/2015 4:01:05 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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To: Swordmaker
But the naysayers have to keep trotting it out biannually at Christmas and Easter to show how ridiculous they think Christians are to follow this idiotic looking guy. . . ignoring that THEY are the ones who drew the caricature like picture.

The Bible clearly states that there was nothing physically remarkable about Jesus, so it wouldn't be surprising if he did look like this.

34 posted on 12/14/2015 4:04:13 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: luvbach1
Why the “deer in headlights” look?

I think that was a deliberate choice of the artist. . . an avowed atheist, I believe.

35 posted on 12/14/2015 4:04:30 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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To: Swordmaker

There is a 2+ hour programs that lends much, much, much more evidence (using the Shroud and years of painstaking research) that is face is much closer to the truth:


36 posted on 12/14/2015 4:07:31 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Thanks, SkyPilot.


37 posted on 12/14/2015 4:10:07 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Swordmaker

If they are looking for Our Lord’s skull — they are wasting their time.


38 posted on 12/14/2015 4:16:02 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Swordmaker

He was not seemly to look upon. I expect he came without a handsome wrapper so that his words would stand, not his looks or charisma.

Even if he were as ugly as an old boot, he is my Savior and beautiful to me.


39 posted on 12/14/2015 4:17:16 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: Swordmaker

Dr. Forensic Anthropologist Richard Neave

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Wow! His parents named Forensic Anthropologist Richard? I guess they were psychic and, therefore, knew what career path he would follow?


40 posted on 12/14/2015 4:17:52 PM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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