Posted on 10/10/2014 1:57:19 PM PDT by NYer
Makes sense.
Keep in mind that the image in the Shroud is the face of a badly beaten man - with a broken nose and cheekbone - swollen face etc.
The Pentocrator is my very favorite and I believe the artist saw the actual Shroud - as did others. Some iconic paintings that depict this same face added a few wisps of hair on the forehead - copied from the Shroud. What they didn’t realize was that the ‘wisps’ were not hair, but streaks of blood. - But their paintings are a silent witness to the fact that they were copying the likeness from The Shroud.
Many of the hundreds of iconic paintings of Jesus, done for churches, were also copied from these original paintings.
There are also written records that give His physical appearece.
Also, see post 102 fora much earlier likeness - sketched from an emerald carving of Him, ordered by the Emperor Tiberius...who was Emperor at the time of the Crucifixion...
Because HISTORY is HISTORY - no matter how much you want to twist it for your own reasons.
Jesus AND Mary were of the line of David - Not only white - but likely 'whiter' than many Jewish people.
There are many historical references to this - some making the remark that, due to 'exposure' He appeared darker (i.e. tan)
Why do so many people continue with the 'swarthy, dark complected, dark, curly hair" mantra for all Jews. (Weren't these darker Jews from the tribe of Judah?)
They weren't all the same back then any more than they are today. There are MANY blue-eyed, blond, light skinned Jewish people.
Simple, really.
The burial cloth was one long piece, 14' 3" long. = His body was laid on the bottom length and the rest was drawn up over his head and down the front.
Therefore, there was no 'space' - it touched the head at every point.
All information - a plethora of research and documentation - is available online. It continues to amaze me at how many folk opine without doing research...
I’m not trying to twist anything. I don’t care either way.
All information - a plethora of research and documentation - is available online. It continues to amaze me at how many folk opine without doing research...
Sorry...That not the way it works...The cloth at the top of the head would show up as a space between the image of the front of the head and the back of the head...It's pretty simple, really...
And I refuse to use them myself, but whenever I encounter “CE” or “BCE”, I just read them as “the Christian Era” and “Before the Christian Era”, respectively.
Cesar Borgia was considered such a handsome man that they used is likeness in many renderings of Jesus.
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