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What did Jesus look like? Part 4: Jesus’ Race

June 26, 2020August 7, 2019

What race was Jesus? So far I have considered the look and body of the historical Jesus without using the term ‘race.’ Yet race is an important issue that’s worth discussing here.

Tags Body, Genetics, History, Yeshua

Imagining Capernaum: The Village of Jesus

December 3, 2019March 13, 2019

Jesus grew up in the Galilean village of Nazareth, but he left his home once he started roaming the land as teacher and healer. For reasons we don’t know he chose a small lakeside place called Capernaum as an important …

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Tags Archaeology, Galilee, History

What did Jesus look like? — Part 3: The Face of Jesus

July 26, 2018June 22, 2018

In the last two articles I have discussed what Jesus’ clothes and body might have been like, based on a variety of evidence. Today, we explore Jesus’ face: What can we actually know about it, and how I settled on …

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Tags Archaeology, History, Yeshua

What did Jesus look like? — Part 2: The Jewish Body

August 8, 2019April 27, 2018

In this article, I talk about Jesus’ possible skin color and Jewish genetics. The question of Jesus’ body is complex as it is contentious. I won’t go into theology but strictly talk about the appearance of the historical Jesus. I …

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Tags Archaeology, Body, Genetics, History, Yeshua

What did Jesus look like? — Part 1: Clothing

May 8, 2018February 27, 2018

I was recently asked how I came up with the look of Jesus in my comic. The question is justified since I chose to draw him very differently from the cliché Christ look of our time: a long-haired Caucasian guy …

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Tags Archaeology, Art, Fashion, History, Yeshua
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The Violent Childhood of Jesus

March 13, 2018January 24, 2018

When Jesus was about ten years old, his homeland was trembling from rebellion. He grew up among people traumatized by war. We don’t know much about the childhood of Jesus, but we often imagine his upbringing in the lush Galilean …

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Tags Galilee, Herod the Great, History, Josephus, Nazareth, Rome, Violence, War, Yeshua
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Top 5 Reasons you should know about Flavius Josephus

May 8, 2018October 23, 2017

He never met Jesus of Nazareth and he does not appear in the Bible, but the man called Flavius Josephus is vital in understanding early Christianity. Josephus was an ancient Judean aristocrat who lived from ca. 37 CE to ca. …

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Tags Bad-ass Hombre, Bible, History, Josephus

The World of Jesus reflected in Iraq?

November 16, 2017October 15, 2017

It was around 2005 when I saw a small video that overturned the way I understood the Bible. It was a 4-minutes trailer to an upcoming documentary film. I must have stumbled upon it through some online news article. The …

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Tags Film, History, War

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