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Archaeologists discover one of the earliest-known images of Jesus — and he's beardles
The Week ^ | October 9, 2014

Posted on 10/10/2014 1:57:19 PM PDT by NYer

Archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest-known images of Jesus in the town of Cástulo in Andalusia, Spain. The image, engraved on a glass plate known as a paten, shows a beardless, short-haired Jesus.

The archaeologists estimate the 8.6-inch paten is from the fourth century C.E., and they suspect it was used to hold Eucharistic bread. The image shows Jesus in a philosopher's toga, along with two other — also beardless — male figures, whom researchers suspect are Peter and Paul, two of Jesus' apostles. All three of the men are depicted with halos. "The scene takes place in the celestial orb, framed between two palm trees, which in Christian iconography represent immortality, the afterlife, and heaven, among other things," the archaeologists said in a statement.

The paten is the earliest depiction that has been found in Spain, Discovery News reports, and it is "in an excellent state of preservation," with 81 percent of its original contents restored. The paten is now on display at the Archaeological Museum of Linares. --Meghan DeMaria

Early Image of Beardless Jesus Found: http://t.co/j5K0t20NFc pic.twitter.com/oTOH1GkgzS — Discovery News (@DNews) October 5, 2014



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To: fruser1

Am I the only one that thinks it looks like he has a keyboard on his hip? Ancient Alien Alert. ;)


61 posted on 10/10/2014 3:02:34 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: Tucker39
The clincher for me is: This flies crosswise of the image on the Shroud of Turin. No sale!

Is that sarcasm?

62 posted on 10/10/2014 3:02:46 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: NYer
I'm not an archaeologist. I'm not an expert on 4th century Rome or Spain. I'm not an expert on 4th century Christians, much less 4th century Spanish Christians. I'm no expert on 4th century hairstyles in any country or territory or land.

However, I know that 4th century Spain was under Roman rule.

I know what images popped up when I Googled "rome fourth century hairstyles", and they looked quite similar to this place. I also know that pictures of Romans with 4th century hairstyles (specifically identifed as such) popped up in the images when I Googled "spain 4th century hairstyles", but no photos of 4th century Spanish hairstyles did . . .

63 posted on 10/10/2014 3:03:08 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: Scoutmaster

place = plate


64 posted on 10/10/2014 3:03:49 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: NYer

Like it says in the Bible..,

...Jesus shaves.


65 posted on 10/10/2014 3:05:04 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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To: knarf

Halo’s or Helmets as ancient astronaut theorists believe?.........


66 posted on 10/10/2014 3:06:12 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: a fool in paradise

lol.

“Hhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrreeeeeee’s Richard!”


67 posted on 10/10/2014 3:08:26 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SkyDancer

It is also used by the Jews, so....


68 posted on 10/10/2014 3:11:07 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (TOUCH MY SODA AND THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY!!)
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To: dangus

Wouldn’t Jesus have been dark-skinned,too?


69 posted on 10/10/2014 3:12:22 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (TOUCH MY SODA AND THERE'LL BE HELL TO PAY!!)
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To: Alex Murphy; Vigilanteman
There's still an office of Inquisition, which means "Investigation" or "Inquest." (The Inquisition was the historic originator of Procedural Due Process.) Today it is called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF.)

No need to call for its "resumption." It has operated continuously since 1542.

70 posted on 10/10/2014 3:14:03 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Seriously.)
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To: GeronL

No indeed. I’d much rather trust the image on the extensively, exhaustively tested Shroud in which Christ would have to have been entombed, than something someone cobbled up 400 years after our Savior ascended into Heaven.


71 posted on 10/10/2014 3:14:38 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Iscool

Well, He suffered and was tempted as all men.

So he would have had stubble!


72 posted on 10/10/2014 3:17:06 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Common Era ... the same as AD (Anno Domini or Year of Our Lord) but sanitized to remove any direct reference to the pivotal event in human history on which it, well, pivots.


73 posted on 10/10/2014 3:17:07 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: NYer

maybe it’s a picture of Mohammad instead....uh oh...


74 posted on 10/10/2014 3:17:21 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Alex Murphy
How do you feel about the Inquisitions, and the other element on this forum who have openly called for its resumption?

Don't base your image of the Inquisition on a Monty Python sketch.

The Inquisition was part of a 700 year-long, successful effort to drive the Mohammedans out of Spain.

Inquisition courts were more fair than those of the kingdom of Spain, or any other contemporaneous European kingdom, Catholic or Protestant.

The most recent scholarship shows that the Black Legend is largely a myth, perpetuated by the English Protestants.

The name of the Congregation for Universal Inquisition was changed to the Congregation of the Holy Office in 1908, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965.

So it still exists(!)

75 posted on 10/10/2014 3:19:52 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: cloudmountain
CE and BCE sure didn't catch on. What the heck is wrong with B.C. and A.D. anyway? Political correctness run amok? Religious bias?

"CE" (Common Era) and "BCE" (Before the Common Era) were abbreviations that began with British Jews in the early 19th Century, and spread to American Jews shortly thereafter. Jews in England and America were participating in public life with their Christian fellow-citizens (unlike in most of Europe, where Jews were often isolated in ghettos), so they needed to use the same dates as everyone else, but they could not in good conscience acknowledge a "Lord" they didn't believe in. Hence "Common Era."

The usage later spread to historians and archaeologists, especially those working in the Middle East, where they didn't want to offend Jews or Moslems.

76 posted on 10/10/2014 3:21:12 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: NYer
People change.

No beard.

Beard.


77 posted on 10/10/2014 3:22:38 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: NYer

A Jew without a do?

No way, Yahweh...


78 posted on 10/10/2014 3:23:06 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: NYer

The short hair fits and I don`t know about the beard but it is not Jesus it is just a drawing.


79 posted on 10/10/2014 3:24:07 PM PDT by ravenwolf (nd)
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To: GeronL
Is that sarcasm?

The Shroud has been studied by hundreds of scientists, including atheistic skeptics, many of whom have converted, and as of today, the image cannot be explained scientifically.

One characteristic of the Shroud that I find especially compelling (I work in 3D illustration/animation) is not only that it's a photographic negative (discovered in the 19th century), but that it's an embedded 3D terrain map. This property was discovered in the 1970s, when NASA scientists fed the image through a terrain analyzer.

That was one clever medieval forger.

80 posted on 10/10/2014 3:29:17 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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