[grey_whiskers]

Why are you insisting on American 21st century cultural standards of the definition of long, without trying to find out what was historically done by Jews?

Looking at Roman customs doesn't tell us much. If you bother reading (even for example, Daniel, or Maccabees) you find that the Jews tended to get in trouble by resisting the cultural norms of whoever was occupying Israel at the time.

[odawg]

1. Josephus shows that the Jews were known, as Eusebius renders it, for “their close-cropped hair” (Preparation for the Gospel, IX.9, sect 412b).

2. Leviticus 10:6 —

Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, “Do not let your hair be loosely disheveled,

3. Ezek. 44:20 —

Nor shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long. They shall only trim the hair of their heads.