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To: SoCal Pubbie
Sure. Why not a chimpanzee. Your examples stretch the comparison about as far

Not really, not if the movie is trying to be "authentic."

Can anybody really look at these photos and actually complain about the physical appearance of Mary in this film?

She doesn't look like an Israeli woman. Not close up. Maybe to you she does. The Jews of that era had distinct racial features (skull size), and cannot be compared to modern-day Isralei women.

This fact motivated a gorup of British scientists to render the "most likely" image of what Jesus supposedly looked like

And, BTW, Josph's beard is too manicured. Pious Jews do not manicure their facial hair.

190 posted on 12/05/2006 12:54:11 PM PST by kosta50 (Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
Within any group of people, there are those who fall outside the norm. Caucasians with broader noses and thicker lips and Chinese with blond hair. The ancient Hebrews also intermarried, though not to a great extent, so there would random recessive genes floating around to pop up every now and then.

However, if you want absolute fidelity to scientific accuracy, I'd advise not watching any movie, at all costs. Upper class women didn't trowel on the makeup like a tart on the Titanic, Patton didn't speak like George C. Scott, and Roman soldiers didn't have stirrups on their saddles like they did in Gladiator.

Now, in this case, the analogy of comparing an Asian actress to Keisha Castle-Hughes for the role of Mary is so absurd as to be comical. Furthermore, if you compare this photo of her to the illustration you provided (which I was well aware of, BTW), there are more similarities, save for skin tone, than differences, certainly when compared to the typical White American type like Jim Caviezel, or the actress who played Mary in the Passion.




221 posted on 12/05/2006 2:28:08 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: kosta50

That recreation was based on general appearance based on a certain number of skulls. But one cannot argue from the general to the specific. I have a picture of my grandfather and his first cousin, both American indians and almost full bloods. His cousin has the same facial features that I have; my grandfather does not. Yet the general shape of the head is much the same.


278 posted on 12/05/2006 7:56:32 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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