“A very Roman looking depiction of Our Lord.”
Depicts Jesus with short hair. Jewish law forbade men to wear their hair long. Even Paul mentioned it. By long, it meant like a woman.
The Romans had to have someone to identify Jesus. If he looked as depicted today, that would not have been necessary. Men did not wear their hair long at that time.
I saw some photos of American men before the Civil War. They all had bushy hair, so to speak, but it was cut off above the collar.
Uh oh, now they're toast.
What's the Ebay bid up to?
"I told you we put it in too early."
I agree that it's Roman looking. I saw some early Christian art in Rome that was similar.
So it was made around three hundred years after Jesus was crucified. If that were in today’s time, we would be talking about a historical figure from 1776... like George Washington.
I am continually amazed that many aren’t aware that Paul wrote to the Christian churches that are geographically now in Moose Limb Turkey. Turkey had a significant Christian population until the Moose Limbs took over and prosecuted them almost out of existence.
We would refer to the area as Anatolia not “Turkey” as Turks did not even arrive in the area for over 1,100 years after Christ.
And, yes, Anatolia was the major area of Paul’s mission to “the Gentiles”, and at a time when Greek was the major language in the area, alongside surviving indigenous languages like Luwian, Phrygian, Galatian (Celtic), Armenian, Isaurian, and Cappadocian. In Paul’s day Christianity spread mostly from Jerusalem, up through Syria and into Anatolia long before any major presence in Italy.