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To: cloudmountain
One of the facts from the Shroud is that, judging by the size of His face, Jesus was about 5'11". That was TALL back then.

Others will insist that He was 5'5", the general height of men in those days. I go with the Shroud.

Actually no. Anthropomorphic data on the Man on the shroud of Turin shows he stood about 5’ 10” tall and was only one sigma taller than the average height of the males of his area. This is based on a census done of male skeletons of several 1st Century Jewish Cemeteries in Jerusalem performed in the last half of the 20th Century which found that the average height of Jewish men of the period was 5’ 8 ⅜” tall. Compare that to the average American male of today who is 5’ 8 ⅝” tall, only ¼” taller. In the Jerusalem study, one sigma taller includes males up to 5’ 10 ½” tall, which would include the Man on the Shroud. He would not have been that unusual, nor stood out in a crowd.

These measurements were based on measuring the tibias and femurs of the male skeletons found in those cemeteries and then plugging those lengths into standard human length ratio calculations.

Similar studies of Roman cemeteries of Roman soldiers’ bones found that the conquerors of the Judean area averaged only 5’ 5 ¼” tall. They were shrimps compared to the natives.

Again, actual researched science trumps the popular myth-conceptions.

120 posted on 02/24/2020 7:34:26 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker
Again, actual researched science trumps the popular myth-conceptions.

You sound just like the tired old cliche: British Science says....
"Actual researched science"--what IN THE WORLD is that? You made that up!

144 posted on 02/25/2020 6:53:51 AM PST by cloudmountain
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