Posted on 12/14/2015 3:07:42 PM PST by Swordmaker
Test Body by Swordmaker - The Independent (UK) is resurrecting this time worn reconstruction from about ten years ago, based on averaging multiple skulls found in Israel, claiming this is what Jesus must have looked like.
Many anthropologists debunked the claims, pointing out that Jewish population of 1st Century Israel and Galilee were not limited to a single genotype and also included about 30% taller Aryan genotype now referred to as "High Noble Semite/Arabs."
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Forensic facial expert reconstructs Jesus Christ's face using ancient skulls
There is another skull/facial recreation that was done from the Shroud of Turin that I can accept, as it comes nearer what is on the Shroud. Very good documentary on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNJPJ4JwHeE
I think the methodology of the scientists and artists who worked on that reconstruction were much more stringent and rigorous to scientific principle. They did not go for the least common denominator and at the start used the best evidence at hand. The also used better demographics for the period and did not assume the worst assumptions based on modern perceptions as did Neave, who assumed the stature of all Jews was short.
This group did their work using modern techniques but retained the ethnicity if the man to be imaged . . . and you can see that the results can still result in the image on the Shroud. They were aware that the hank bleaching of the Shroud artificially narrowed the facial image on the Shroud, giving the Man on the Shroud a narrower, gaunter look than he should have, by darkening the sides of the face. Ergo, their reconstructed face is rounder, less gaunt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNJPJ4JwHeE (I can't make it clickable, sorry)
Think I saw that face on a piece of toast a few weeks ago.
He isn’t a pretty boy, I don’t think.
Very wise statement.
yes, they mapped his career path early on. Not. My error created by cutting and pasting his name from the original article when FR informed me it could not be posted directly. I accidentally pasted his work area in the wrong place and didn't catch it. Thanks for noticing it. Better to know someone actually reads the original articles before posting, you know.
I once edited a magazine and on the title page I posted this: "We try to include something for everyone. Many people are always looking for errors and typos; therefore, we have thoughtfully included a few in each issue for them."
Someone is making a $69 toaster that can put any image on your toast you want. . . Jesus, Obama, Putin, your dog, you. You provide a photo and allow about six days and they send you the toaster with the templates to make the toast.
Norman Fell doesn't look like a Deer about to be hit by a semi. . .
Yeah.
Oh, heck. Thanks for owning up, but I was really hoping that it was the publication’s error.
Re your magazine’s statement: clever.
No, it’s Walter Matthau.
Jesus looked average? That is an absurd assumption. It’s like concluding that Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn looked like the average women from their time. Although it explains why people so often didn’t recognize Him after his return.
Can I publish thirty articles explaining why Jesus looked exactly like the one on the right?
Thanks for once again treating us to another review of “Jihad Jesus,” but no thanks!
The artist purposefully crossed his eyes a bit and that detracts from the picture.
Looks nothing like the image on the Shroud. I tend to go by that...if visualization of some sort is needed.
Haha! Good point. Besides, I don't consider Rosie O'Donnell and Halle Berry to be of the same species so...
I don’t think He could have looked too different from the typical Nazarene. That would have drawn attention to Him in and of itself. The Bible says something about how He had no special beauty to draw people to Him, and I’m thinking He had no special ugliness, either. People were not going to be drawn to Him based on how he looked, one way or the other.
Just my thoughts; could be totally wrong. :-)
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