Jesus was Caucasian born...no question of that.
How swarthy is pure conjecture...I tend to think Med peoples were less swarthy in antiquity than now and depending on who’s writing it...research bears that out...how much less swarthy who knows
Ditto that Nick guy and his various early incarnations.
Kelly was right.
It is perceived as white....as in Non Negroid or Non Mongoliod or Non Australiod grouping
Freepers...not much they get knee jerk over quicker than race.
Funny given most live in homogeneous enclaves...unlike me.
But I know..ya’ll have “black friends”....so you are authority..retch
(not directed at you per se dear)
it’s just another perverse exit our culture has taken where it is a negative Jesus or Santa were white
it is yet another front of a soct race war on whites here and to some degree in the west
you self rightous laugh and have your fun from your comfy naivete in Whitelandia
The Fayum Portraits (same time period, about first century BC/first century AD) can probably give us a good idea of what people in the area looked like then.
These were "realistic" funerary portraits of people.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=fayum+portraits&FORM=HDRSC2