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To: TopQuark
[No one knows what he looks like anyway. ] Why not? Just go to Israel or your nearest synagogue.

If you did that you'd see a odern-day Jew. He might be "Ashkenazi" or he might be "Sepphardic"; we also don't really know how much genetic drift has taken place amongst the Jewish population over 2000 years of diaspora and pogroms. So you may or may not get a very good idea at all of what Jesus looked like from looking at a modern-day Jew.

79 posted on 04/01/2004 2:31:19 PM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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To: Dr. Frank fan
we also don't really know how much genetic drift has taken place amongst the Jewish population over 2000 years of diaspora and pogroms.

That actually has been researched. Assimilation is a very recent phenomenon: about two hundred years long. Genetics is largely there.

81 posted on 04/01/2004 2:39:56 PM PST by TopQuark (g)
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