This is a endless argument..Jesus as others have said was a jew...if his skin was dark it was bronzish..from his olive colored skin being in the desert sun.
Jesus was, of course, a Galilean Jew.
He probably had olive skin. like most Levantine people, and as portrayed in Orthodox icons (including icons written by St. Luke, who knew Him and His Mother)!!
Olive-skinned Levantines are generally classified as Caucasian. They are in no way “black”, or “people of color”!! PHOOEY!!!!
The BBC. For some it’s a daily IQ test. For others it’s a daily replenishment of idiocy.
Palestinian > Filistini > Philistine
Jesus is a blood Israeli, an observant Jew, pedigreed from Abraham, and the Once-and-Forever True King out of the House and Line of David. One simply does NOT get mor thoroughly Israelite Jewish than Jesus who is epitome and epicenter of both faith and ethnicity.
California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada will soon be called Mexico
How do they pretend to know? Got hair samples?
Fun facts include: Galatia and Galilee are named after the Gauls. Gauls (i.e., Celts) came in a variety of shades.
Another fun fact: We all knew the North African Berbers were Celts. But I read recently that the Moors were also.
So, the Moorish invasion of Spain in the 8th century was basically a Celt-on-Celt war--Moslem vs. Christian.
FIFY!
* Beckford noted accurately that artistic depictions of Jesus as blonde and European are historically inaccurate.*
Beckford is an idiot.
Mohammed was ery fair-skinned. As was Cleopatra who was more Macedonian Greek than anything. The royal women of Babylon were considered fair-skinned as were Aaryan Persians/Syrians, Byzenteniums and Sumarians. Romans and Greeks (and Vikings) interplayed with the middle east over centuries so it would be silly to say there was no mixing of genetics with the early Jewish population, much less imply that Jews were other than light-skinned, based solely on their appearance in modern Israel.
Research:
“We highlight three findings of interest. First, an allele (G) at rs12913832 near the OCA2 gene, with a proven association to blue eye color in individuals of European descent40, has an estimated alternative allele frequency of 49% in the Levant_ChL population, suggesting that the blue-eyed phenotype was common in the Levant_ChL.
“Second, an allele at rs1426654 in the SLC24A5 gene which is one of the most important determinants of light pigmentation in West Eurasians41 is fixed for the derived allele (A) in the Levant_ChL population suggesting that a light skinned phenotype may have been common in this population, although any inferences about skin pigmentation based on allele frequencies observed at a single site need to be viewed with caution42.”
“Third, an allele (G) at rs6903823 in the ZKSCAN3 and ZSCAN31 genes which is absent in all early agriculturalists reported to date (Levant_N, Anatolia_N, Iran_N) and that has been argued to have been under positive selection by Mathieson et al.31, occurs with an estimated frequency of 20% in the Levant_ChL, 17% in the Levant_BA_South, and 15% in the Iran_ChL populations, while it is absent in all other populations. This suggests that the allele was rising in frequency in Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Near Eastern populations at the same time as it was rising in frequency in Europe.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05649-9
That’s why Pilate ordered a marker on the the cross that read, “King of the Palestinians.” /s
Where do they find these illiterate people?
No such thing as a Palestinian. Made up nationality from assholes kicked out of Jordan and Egypt Christ lineage is Jewish. If he was a “Palestinian, he wouldn’t have been crucified, he would have blown himself up!
Uh. Was that in fact wrong? He might have also been Jewish, with a whole lot of north African blood, and maybe even some African Berber. It was no more unexpected then than it is now. Why would that be an issue?
What blood of the Christ is one worried about? I’m quite sure he didn’t look like a northern European.
Jesus was not a Palestinian. He was likely however NOT a lilly white, blue eyed European.
Jesus is the English translation of a Greek translation. The real name is Yeshua.
BKMRK.