Missy wrote:

M> Passion of the Christ. Shame on Mel Gibson's depiction of Jesus being
M> a long haired fair skinned man.  The normal hair style of that era for
M> a male was short. Researching Syrian and Jewish history is undisputed
M> in this fact. Second of all he was certainly not a blue eyed
M> caucasion. If he wanted his film to be authentic, he should have shown
M> how Jesus would have really looked like. A dark skinned, dark eyed,
M> short haired man. Why can't we as a society realize that the artistic
M> depictions of Jesus is influenced by the European brush? Worship
M> should depict the truth and not be brain washed by the ignorance of
M> the artistic impressions of the early centuries.

That, and a subtle undercurrent of Anti-Semitism in the Church throughout the
middle ages, and probably never completely purged. . .

Showing Jesus as an actual Jew could negate the Church's "replacement
theology"! :|

Certainly Michaelangelo(whose paintings of the Passion & Last Supper created
the image/picture of Jesus most consider familiar) was painting with an aim to
being successful/profitable, so would certainly have made the image of Jesus
accessible/familiar/identifiable with his ITALIAN audience. . .

And nobody has much seen fit to correct the image and bring it more in line
with modern archaelogical knowledge of 1st century Judah!

Except last year there was a UBC professor who, using a skull from the period
reconstructed what could probably be a typical 1st century Judaean (ie. one
like Jesus might've looked like)

Your friend,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))






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