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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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1 posted on 12/14/2015 3:07:42 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

What a ridiculous idea. And he just keeps on getting that big, fat paycheck.


2 posted on 12/14/2015 3:09:25 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Swordmaker

That’s the same forensic picture they have been using for years:
http://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2004/02/what-jesus-really-looked-like-updated.html


3 posted on 12/14/2015 3:11:10 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: Swordmaker

I don’t believe it.


4 posted on 12/14/2015 3:11:43 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

Isn’t this years-old news? That picture’s been out there for a while.


5 posted on 12/14/2015 3:12:16 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Swordmaker

Why would 3 random skulls give what Jesus looked like? Did all Jews look the same back then? Do we know that were even skulls of Jews? We know from history people from many nations traveled though the area.


6 posted on 12/14/2015 3:12:37 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I dream of a world where a chicken can cross the road with out having their motives questioned.)
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To: ConservativeTeen

Yup! And he still looks like that guy that used to play in a lot of “spaghetti westerns.”


7 posted on 12/14/2015 3:13:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Have you unpacked from your white privilege guilt trip yet?)
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To: Swordmaker
That same pic has been circulating for years.

In any event, three skulls of unknown provenance from an area that was a crossroads and melting pot for the entire eastern Mediterranean (see Acts 2:8-11) do not a valid sample make.

8 posted on 12/14/2015 3:14:44 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Swordmaker

Yeah, no. Looks more of a John the Baptist type of guy.


9 posted on 12/14/2015 3:14:50 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts!"- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ConservativeTeen

Well its not like it should be a surprise physically Jesus the Christ was much like all the other people of the region else why would Judas have to mark him so well ?

The portraits of a 6ft tall Italian with long then features is a creation of the painters.


10 posted on 12/14/2015 3:15:03 PM PST by Bidimus1
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To: ThomasThomas
Exactly. Fellow just justifying his paycheck.

And the notion that this is some sort of groundbreaking new science is bunk. We studied forensic reconstruction back when I was studying archaeology in the early '70s.

11 posted on 12/14/2015 3:17:04 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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It's Christmas, and the Neanderthal looking Jesus reconstruction is BACK, being touted again as what Jesus must have looked like based on one forensic anthropologist's idea of what 1st Century Jews MUST have looked like. Despite have been roundly panned by other anthropologists as bad science when it first appeared, it keeps being brought up by Shroud skeptics. -- PING!


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12 posted on 12/14/2015 3:20:29 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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"Him look like Jooooooooooooooo."

13 posted on 12/14/2015 3:21:59 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: Sacajaweau
What a ridiculous idea. And he just keeps on getting that big, fat paycheck.

Well, he's retired now. . . so let's grant him his retirement and so he's making hay with extra-income by pushing his Jesus as a Neanderthal picture. . . LOL!

14 posted on 12/14/2015 3:22:04 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

Seems legit. After all, don’t all Jews look alike?


15 posted on 12/14/2015 3:22:14 PM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Future Snake Eater
Isn’t this years-old news? That picture’s been out there for a while.

Yup! Sure is. 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.

16 posted on 12/14/2015 3:24:40 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

Yes, well, God in His infinite wisdom gave no indication whatever in His word of the physical appearance of His incarnate Son. And, you know, there might just be a lesson in that. So, let Europe go on depicting Jesus one way, Africa another, Asia another, and the Americas whichever way suits their heritage. That way everyone can be both right and wrong, and it in no way endangers the truth of the Holy Scriptures or sanctity of the Holy Christian Church.

Put more briefly: Who cares?


17 posted on 12/14/2015 3:24:57 PM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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To: Swordmaker

Imagine someone 2000 years ago reconstructing your face from the skulls of the people you see at the mall. How accurate would it be?


18 posted on 12/14/2015 3:27:27 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Swordmaker

Let me try that again:

Imagine someone 2000 years from now reconstructing your face from the skulls of the people you currently see at the mall. How accurate would it be?


19 posted on 12/14/2015 3:28:27 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Swordmaker

A dead-ringer for the guy that rang my doorbell and tried to sell a Kirby Ultimate G combination carpet and vacuum cleaner last week. I think he’s still in town. I declined the offer as I already own one and prefer to clean or vacuum the carpet with one hand while holding a cup of coffee in the other. Occasionally I wear a maid’s uniform to lend an air of authenticity to my efforts. The grand-kids get a kick out of my performances. The wife not so much. But I digress. Excuse me.


20 posted on 12/14/2015 3:34:39 PM PST by chulaivn66 (Mental exercises should be limited in frequency and duration to avoid blindness.)
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