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John 20: 3-10 said:

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So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.

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Yukon Cornelius said:

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The Jews..judeans…who lived in Judah… which was named so because it was the land given to the tribe of Judah

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I find this similar to the "all Asian people look the same" or "all black people look the same" statements. Because the average guy looked like this, Jesus must have looked like this? There are plenty of variances inside of each race, ranging from facial feature, height and skin tone.

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I have been most influenced in the argument by the 1-3rd century depictions before the Zeus inspired Byzantine image took over popular imagination.

Most all of the images were beardless.

We know enough from archaeological record of Galilee at that time to know a white European appearance was extremely unlikely. Both the Torah and the Bible discuss how Moses and Paul were considered Egyptian in their appearance.

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So Jews who stayed within the Babylonian and Persians people for 2600 years are what the person of Jesus is supposed to look like? Jesus isn't from that group of people.

He's from the people who came out of the exile back into Judea not those who remained in Iraq.

So it stands to reason He looks like those who came out vs those who stayed. Which of those who came out we have a pretty good idea of what they looked like. Because well they still exist.

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No it's not. "A lot of people" think the Jews who mixed over 2,500 years with Persians is what the unmixed ancient Jews out of the exile looked like isn't the answer.

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The Jews of Jesus time, of which Jesus is from is a group of people who trace their lineage for thousands of years without much ethnic mixing and still to this day.

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The real-life Jesus, she says, likely had the short hair, trim beard and humble attire of Jewish philosophers of his time and place the first century C.E. in the Roman province of Judea.

She describes Jesus as physically unassuming, with average looks and height, and features that as a first-century Jew in Judea would have been most similar to his ethnic group's closest 21st-century parallel: contemporary Iraqi Jews. She even brings in archaeological evidence skeletons and clothing from the period.

Taylor also sought more basic information, and turned to archaeological evidence from the era.
She credited scientists such as Israeli biohistorian Yossi Nagar with researching "not only skeletal remains, but all aspects of the human body that kind of scholarship they're doing in Israel, trying to understand people's average heights, ethnic profiles, from composite skeletons in Judea and other skeletons of neighboring people in the same time period.
"According to Yossi Nagar, Jews of Second Temple times had a lot in common with Jews from the area of Iraq today," Taylor said. She said Iraqi Jews are the closest in skeletal type to what is found in first-century burials than other communities in the Jewish Diaspora.

Taylor who also examined clothing from the period assembled a composite portrait, depicting it in a drawing.

Jesus stood about five feet, five inches tall, "with olive-brown skin, brown-black hair and brown eyes," she writes. She adds it is quite likely that his hair was "shortish" and that he had "some kind of beard (though not a long one)." He plausibly wore two mantles an outer one for warmth, and an inner tallit with tzitzit and walked in sandals. She theorizes he was physically average in appearance, based on the Gospels' lack of specific descriptions.

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and the Jews of today can trace their lineages all the way back to the exodus.

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