From the first time Christian children
settle into Sunday school classrooms, an
image of Jesus Christ is etched into their
minds.
.
.

In North America he is most
often depicted as being taller than his
disciples, lean, with long, flowing, light brown
hair, fair skin and light-colored eyes. Familiar
though this image may be, it is inherently
flawed. A person with these features and
physical bearing would have looked very
different from everyone else in the region
where Jesus lived and ministered. Surely the
authors of the Bible would have mentioned so
stark a contrast.
.
.

On the contrary, according to the Gospel of
Matthew, when Jesus was arrested in the
garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion,
Judas Iscariot had to indicate to the soldiers
whom Jesus was because they could not tell
him apart from his disciples. Further clouding
the question of what Jesus looked like is the
simple fact that nowhere in the New Testament
is Jesus described, nor have any drawings of
him ever been uncovered.
.
.

There is the additional problem of having
neither a skeleton nor other bodily remains to
probe for DNA. In the absence of evidence, our
images of Jesus have been left to the
imagination of artists.
The influences of the artists' cultures and
traditions can be profound, observes Carlos F.
Cardoza-Orlandi, associate professor of world
Christianity at Columbia Theological Seminary
in Atlanta. "While Western imagery is
dominant, in other parts of the world he is
often shown as black, Arab or Hispanic." And
so the fundamental question remains: What did
Jesus look like?
.
.

THERE IS THE ADDITIONAL
PROBLEM OF HAVING
NEITHER A SKELETON NOR
OTHER BODILY REMAINS
TO PROBE FOR DNA.
.
.

An answer has emerged from an exciting new
field of science: forensic anthropology. Using
methods similar to those police have developed
to solve crimes, British scientists, assisted by
Israeli archeologists, have re-created what they
believe is the most accurate image of the most
famous face in human history.
.
.

POPULAR MECHANICS
An outgrowth of physical anthropology,
forensic anthropology uses cultural and
archeological data as well as the physical and
biological sciences to study different groups of
people, explains A. Midori Albert, a professor
who teaches forensic anthropology at the
University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Experts in this highly specialized field require a
working knowledge of genetics, and human
growth and development. In their research they
also draw from the fields of primatology,
paleoanthropology (the study of primate and
human evolution) and human osteology (the
study of the skeleton). Even seemingly distant
fields like nutrition, dentistry and climate
adaptation play a role in this type of
investigation.
While forensic anthropology is usually used to
solve crimes, Richard Neave, a medical artist
retired from The University of Manchester in
England, realized it also could shed light on the
appearance of Jesus. The co-author of Making
Faces: Using Forensic And Archaeological
Evidence , Neave had ventured in controversial
areas before. Over the past two decades, he had
reconstructed dozens of famous faces, including
Philip II of Macedonia, the father of Alexander
the Great, and King Midas of Phrygia. If anyone
could create an accurate portrait of Jesus, it
would be Neave....
.
.

read more and the picture >>> https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a234/1282186/[center]From the first time Christian children
settle into Sunday school classrooms, an
image of Jesus Christ is etched into their
minds.
.
.

In North America he is most
often depicted as being taller than his
disciples, lean, with long, flowing, light brown
hair, fair skin and light-colored eyes. Familiar
though this image may be, it is inherently
flawed. A person with these features and
physical bearing would have looked very
different from everyone else in the region
where Jesus lived and ministered. Surely the
authors of the Bible would have mentioned so
stark a contrast.
.
.

On the contrary, according to the Gospel of
Matthew, when Jesus was arrested in the
garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion,
Judas Iscariot had to indicate to the soldiers
whom Jesus was because they could not tell
him apart from his disciples. Further clouding
the question of what Jesus looked like is the
simple fact that nowhere in the New Testament
is Jesus described, nor have any drawings of
him ever been uncovered.
.
.

There is the additional problem of having
neither a skeleton nor other bodily remains to
probe for DNA. In the absence of evidence, our
images of Jesus have been left to the
imagination of artists.
The influences of the artists' cultures and
traditions can be profound, observes Carlos F.
Cardoza-Orlandi, associate professor of world
Christianity at Columbia Theological Seminary
in Atlanta. "While Western imagery is
dominant, in other parts of the world he is
often shown as black, Arab or Hispanic." And
so the fundamental question remains: What did
Jesus look like?
.
.

THERE IS THE ADDITIONAL
PROBLEM OF HAVING
NEITHER A SKELETON NOR
OTHER BODILY REMAINS
TO PROBE FOR DNA.
.
.

An answer has emerged from an exciting new
field of science: forensic anthropology. Using
methods similar to those police have developed
to solve crimes, British scientists, assisted by
Israeli archeologists, have re-created what they
believe is the most accurate image of the most
famous face in human history.
.
.

POPULAR MECHANICS
An outgrowth of physical anthropology,
forensic anthropology uses cultural and
archeological data as well as the physical and
biological sciences to study different groups of
people, explains A. Midori Albert, a professor
who teaches forensic anthropology at the
University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Experts in this highly specialized field require a
working knowledge of genetics, and human
growth and development. In their research they
also draw from the fields of primatology,
paleoanthropology (the study of primate and
human evolution) and human osteology (the
study of the skeleton). Even seemingly distant
fields like nutrition, dentistry and climate
adaptation play a role in this type of
investigation.
While forensic anthropology is usually used to
solve crimes, Richard Neave, a medical artist
retired from The University of Manchester in
England, realized it also could shed light on the
appearance of Jesus. The co-author of Making
Faces: Using Forensic And Archaeological
Evidence , Neave had ventured in controversial
areas before. Over the past two decades, he had
reconstructed dozens of famous faces, including
Philip II of Macedonia, the father of Alexander
the Great, and King Midas of Phrygia. If anyone
could create an accurate portrait of Jesus, it
would be Neave....
.
.

read more and the picture >>> https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a234/1282186/[/center]From the first time Christian children
settle into Sunday school classrooms, an
image of Jesus Christ is etched into their
minds.
.
.

In North America he is most
often depicted as being taller than his
disciples, lean, with long, flowing, light brown
hair, fair skin and light-colored eyes. Familiar
though this image may be, it is inherently
flawed. A person with these features and
physical bearing would have looked very
different from everyone else in the region
where Jesus lived and ministered. Surely the
authors of the Bible would have mentioned so
stark a contrast.
.
.

On the contrary, according to the Gospel of
Matthew, when Jesus was arrested in the
garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion,
Judas Iscariot had to indicate to the soldiers
whom Jesus was because they could not tell
him apart from his disciples. Further clouding
the question of what Jesus looked like is the
simple fact that nowhere in the New Testament
is Jesus described, nor have any drawings of
him ever been uncovered.
.
.

There is the additional problem of having
neither a skeleton nor other bodily remains to
probe for DNA. In the absence of evidence, our
images of Jesus have been left to the
imagination of artists.
The influences of the artists' cultures and
traditions can be profound, observes Carlos F.
Cardoza-Orlandi, associate professor of world
Christianity at Columbia Theological Seminary
in Atlanta. "While Western imagery is
dominant, in other parts of the world he is
often shown as black, Arab or Hispanic." And
so the fundamental question remains: What did
Jesus look like?
.
.

THERE IS THE ADDITIONAL
PROBLEM OF HAVING
NEITHER A SKELETON NOR
OTHER BODILY REMAINS
TO PROBE FOR DNA.
.
.

An answer has emerged from an exciting new
field of science: forensic anthropology. Using
methods similar to those police have developed
to solve crimes, British scientists, assisted by
Israeli archeologists, have re-created what they
believe is the most accurate image of the most
famous face in human history.
.
.

POPULAR MECHANICS
An outgrowth of physical anthropology,
forensic anthropology uses cultural and
archeological data as well as the physical and
biological sciences to study different groups of
people, explains A. Midori Albert, a professor
who teaches forensic anthropology at the
University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Experts in this highly specialized field require a
working knowledge of genetics, and human
growth and development. In their research they
also draw from the fields of primatology,
paleoanthropology (the study of primate and
human evolution) and human osteology (the
study of the skeleton). Even seemingly distant
fields like nutrition, dentistry and climate
adaptation play a role in this type of
investigation.
While forensic anthropology is usually used to
solve crimes, Richard Neave, a medical artist
retired from The University of Manchester in
England, realized it also could shed light on the
appearance of Jesus. The co-author of Making
Faces: Using Forensic And Archaeological
Evidence , Neave had ventured in controversial
areas before. Over the past two decades, he had
reconstructed dozens of famous faces, including
Philip II of Macedonia, the father of Alexander
the Great, and King Midas of Phrygia. If anyone
could create an accurate portrait of Jesus, it
would be Neave....
.
.

read more and the picture >>> https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a234/1282186/