Jesus probably looked like Mohammed bin Salman. As long as we are on the same subject, I've imagined Cleopatra to look similar, Mediterranean/Arab looking with olive/medium dark skin. The genetics of those who reside in the Middle East has changed a great deal in the last 2000 years. Look at the demographic changes that have taken place in areas around this country in just the last few decades. It is unlikely that Jesus looked like an Arab or a black man. He likely looked like someone of Jewish ancestry since that is what he is actually known to be. Put a beard and long hair on Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Rudd, or Adam Sandler if you want to imagine a more accurate likeness.
Jesus probably looked like Mohammed bin Salman. As long as we are on the same subject, I've imagined Cleopatra to look similar, Mediterranean/Arab looking with olive/medium dark skin.There’s a documentary “ The Face of Jesus “ or some such that takes the three D data from the Shroud of Turin and plots the “face”’of Jesus. The result looked like many a face I’ve seen before n NYs Orthodox community. Basically a look I associate with a slight reddish tinge to the hair.
Yeah, but don't forget how that includes the Middle Easterners lightening up their gene pool a few centuries ago with white sex slaves captured from Europe. While 300K to 400K blacks were brought as slaves to what we today call the United States, about 1 to 1.2 million white Europeans were captured by Muslim slave raiders from the Ottoman Empire. The primary purpose of the women was sex slavery -- no doubt lightening up the gene pool, especially in the North African Ottoman states.
Another change was the Jewish diaspora spreading the Jews out in many places. What did the Jews look like before that? Like other posters I'd guess they looked darker than whites but lighter than blacks -- but we really don't know. All we know is that the Ashkenazi Jews were the ones that spent many generations among Europeans, probably lightening up their gene pool before moving back to Israel. It'd probably be a mistake to assume that the Jews in Israel today represent the skin color of Jews before the diaspora.
I interviewed a lady who was at & helped author the book on Benghazi which became the movie. She said the American contractors were routinely stopped like depicted at the beginning of the movie because they wore their beards long like the Taliban. She said Libyans were more European/ Middle Eastern in appearance & culture & suspected those outside the norm.