[JoeProBono]

[csense]

bkmk

[Swordmaker]

That picture proves nothing. Here's one of a Noble Arab:

[Swordmaker]

Thanks, JoeProBono, for a more contemporary picture of a Knight Templar (although I think that one is from the 19th Century)... but that picture is trumped by this collection of Sephardic Jews, many of the same ethnic type that were present in 1st Century Israel:

Note, BroJoeK, these ARE from a wikipedia source. However, they share the same ethnic archetype as the "Noble Arab" and certainly do not look like your cartoonish "Barney Rubble" caricature that the skeptics trot out claiming it's what Jesus must have looked like, as though that somehow invalidates the image on the Shroud.

However, both Joes, they too probative of nothing about the image on the Shroud except that it could possibly be a Semitic person of that particular ethnicity, nothing more.