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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: 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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