Has anyone seen the new rendering of Jesus? A forensic scientist came up with the image by studying the skulls of first century Jewish men found in Galilee in Northern Israel. I'll put a picture in an answer.

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Charles Davis
Charles Davis commented
Ray, Nazareth is not mentioned in history prior to the end of the 1st century, it is not mentioned in the Talmud or the annals of Josephus, and the histories of Philo. If it existed in 90 ce it was insignificant.
Charles Davis
Charles Davis commented
I also am not unstudied in this area, if you were to read my education, and research you'd understand.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/nazareth.html
http://www.nazarethmyth.info/
http://www.nazarethmyth.info/SBL_2012_Salm_(Nazareth).pdf
Ray Dart
Ray Dart commented
I'm happy (as I said) for some different name than Nazarene, if you don't like the attachment to the area by that name. There is considerable evidence for the establishment of habitation in the area that is way earlier than the "known" identification of Nazereth. Honest, there is!
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Apparently 'white Jesus' was created to make Christianity more appealing to people in the west. The picture you are talking about looks more realistic of how he actually would have looked.

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Cool. Thanks for sharing that.

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Jann Nikka answered

Wouldn't he look more Jewish and Hebrew? 

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Charles Davis
Charles Davis commented
Jewish or Hebrew peoples are conglomerate of different peoples, so who knows what he looked like. They never were a pure race of any sort, no matter what they make you think.
Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
OK
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Tom Jackson answered

By definition, a forensic scientist (artist?) produces a portrait with little or no expression.

Imagine him smiling and it's quite acceptable to me.

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Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
I agree.

I was just making the point that what we are used to seeing (read: playing solitaire with a deck of 51) does not necessarily mean that is all there is to the reality---especially when we're trying to get a "grip" on God.

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