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To: Eagle Eye
Actually he wasn't "jewish" but Judean. On both his mother and father's sides.

Well, on His dad's side he was pure Immortal God, maker of heaven and earth. His stepfather, Joseph, went back in a direct male line to Abraham. On his mom's side His descent from Aaron is spelled out in Luke 1:5, where her cousin Elizabeth is said to be "a daughter of Aaron." How this translates to being non-Caucasian and non-Semitic you have not yet clarified.

Not all children of Israel were Judean, but all Judeans were children of Israel.

This has a bearing on the racial makeup of Jesus how? In other words, there is no Biblical documentation for saying that He was not Caucasian and Jewish.

And many modern day 'jews' are descended from east Euorpean tribes, not from the children of Israel, or says the author of The Thirteenth Tribe, which is a banned book in some parts of the world.

Um, maybe, but how does this relate to Jesus's genetic inheritance? And why are you invested in demonstrating that He was not white and Jewish?

16 posted on 03/21/2006 4:05:58 PM PST by Capriole (The Anti-Feminist)
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To: Capriole

You are taking this way too seriously.

Some of us having fun talking about non-western whites that would make a good Jesus.

And you have the parental lineage correct. He had to be able to trace it back on both sides, both parents of the flesh being descended from David.

My point on the Jewish side is that, imo, today's Israel isn't a great place to look to see what Judeans looked like 2000 years ago.

I'm not invested in anything of the sort as you claim, but I don't think that using today's term of Jewish to describe Jesus is terribly accurate. That term today implies anyone claiming to be either one of the children of Israel or any convert to the religion. Jesus was Judean, of the tribe of Juda, not just one of the children of Isreal.

Are you invested in preserving the Jeff Hunter version of Jesus?


19 posted on 03/23/2006 8:52:24 AM PST by Eagle Eye (There ought to be a law against excess legislation.)
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