It is clear that his features were typical of Galilean Semites of his era.

Matthew’s description of the events in Gethsemane offers an obvious clue to the real face of Jesus. “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? Cardoza-Orlandi, associate professor of world Christianity at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta. The influences of the artists’ cultures and traditions can be profound, observes Carlos F. In the absence of evidence, our images of Jesus have been left to the imagination of artists. There is the additional problem of having neither a skeleton nor other bodily remains to probe for DNA. 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. 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. Surely the authors of the Bible would have mentioned such a stark a contrast. A person with these features and physical bearing would have looked very different from everyone else in the region where Jesus lived and ministered. Familiar though this image may be, it is inherently flawed. 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. Why does Mike Fillon’s “The Real Face of Jesus” continue to endure, almost two decades after publication? Read on and find out.įrom the first time Christian children settle into Sunday school classrooms, an image of Jesus Christ is etched into their minds. Two decades later, we are reproducing one of the most widespread stories in the history of Popular Mechanics, along with how it first appeared in the December 2002 issue. A designer has even used machine learning to reconstruct the visages of Roman emperors. Since then, science has continued reconstructing faces from throughout history, from Stone Age humans to European royalty. Haralick, R.M., (1983).Originally published in December 2002, the Popular Mechanics article “The Real Face of Jesus” created a face for the most famous historical figure in human history.

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