Early Image of Beardless Jesus Found: http://t.co/j5K0t20NFc pic.twitter.com/oTOH1GkgzS — Discovery News (@DNews) October 5, 2014
Posted on 10/10/2014 1:57:19 PM PDT by NYer
Archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest-known images of Jesus in the town of Cástulo in Andalusia, Spain. The image, engraved on a glass plate known as a paten, shows a beardless, short-haired Jesus.
The archaeologists estimate the 8.6-inch paten is from the fourth century C.E., and they suspect it was used to hold Eucharistic bread. The image shows Jesus in a philosopher's toga, along with two other — also beardless — male figures, whom researchers suspect are Peter and Paul, two of Jesus' apostles. All three of the men are depicted with halos. "The scene takes place in the celestial orb, framed between two palm trees, which in Christian iconography represent immortality, the afterlife, and heaven, among other things," the archaeologists said in a statement.
The paten is the earliest depiction that has been found in Spain, Discovery News reports, and it is "in an excellent state of preservation," with 81 percent of its original contents restored. The paten is now on display at the Archaeological Museum of Linares. --Meghan DeMaria
Early Image of Beardless Jesus Found: http://t.co/j5K0t20NFc pic.twitter.com/oTOH1GkgzS — Discovery News (@DNews) October 5, 2014
Am I the only one that thinks it looks like he has a keyboard on his hip? Ancient Alien Alert. ;)
Is that sarcasm?
However, I know that 4th century Spain was under Roman rule.
I know what images popped up when I Googled "rome fourth century hairstyles", and they looked quite similar to this place. I also know that pictures of Romans with 4th century hairstyles (specifically identifed as such) popped up in the images when I Googled "spain 4th century hairstyles", but no photos of 4th century Spanish hairstyles did . . .
place = plate
Like it says in the Bible..,
...Jesus shaves.
Halo’s or Helmets as ancient astronaut theorists believe?.........
lol.
“Hhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrreeeeeee’s Richard!”
It is also used by the Jews, so....
Wouldn’t Jesus have been dark-skinned,too?
No need to call for its "resumption." It has operated continuously since 1542.
No indeed. I’d much rather trust the image on the extensively, exhaustively tested Shroud in which Christ would have to have been entombed, than something someone cobbled up 400 years after our Savior ascended into Heaven.
Well, He suffered and was tempted as all men.
So he would have had stubble!
Common Era ... the same as AD (Anno Domini or Year of Our Lord) but sanitized to remove any direct reference to the pivotal event in human history on which it, well, pivots.
maybe it’s a picture of Mohammad instead....uh oh...
Don't base your image of the Inquisition on a Monty Python sketch.
The Inquisition was part of a 700 year-long, successful effort to drive the Mohammedans out of Spain.
Inquisition courts were more fair than those of the kingdom of Spain, or any other contemporaneous European kingdom, Catholic or Protestant.
The most recent scholarship shows that the Black Legend is largely a myth, perpetuated by the English Protestants.
The name of the Congregation for Universal Inquisition was changed to the Congregation of the Holy Office in 1908, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965.
So it still exists(!)
"CE" (Common Era) and "BCE" (Before the Common Era) were abbreviations that began with British Jews in the early 19th Century, and spread to American Jews shortly thereafter. Jews in England and America were participating in public life with their Christian fellow-citizens (unlike in most of Europe, where Jews were often isolated in ghettos), so they needed to use the same dates as everyone else, but they could not in good conscience acknowledge a "Lord" they didn't believe in. Hence "Common Era."
The usage later spread to historians and archaeologists, especially those working in the Middle East, where they didn't want to offend Jews or Moslems.
No beard.
Beard.
A Jew without a do?
No way, Yahweh...
The short hair fits and I don`t know about the beard but it is not Jesus it is just a drawing.
The Shroud has been studied by hundreds of scientists, including atheistic skeptics, many of whom have converted, and as of today, the image cannot be explained scientifically.
One characteristic of the Shroud that I find especially compelling (I work in 3D illustration/animation) is not only that it's a photographic negative (discovered in the 19th century), but that it's an embedded 3D terrain map. This property was discovered in the 1970s, when NASA scientists fed the image through a terrain analyzer.
That was one clever medieval forger.
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