Sorry folks don’t mean to party poop. Thought I I’ll just leave this here.
In 1988, an international team of scientific experts performed radiocarbon dating on snippets of the Shroud of Turin. The results showed that the famous cloth did not date back to the time of Christ’s crucifixion in the first century A.D. In fact, the cloth seemed to have been manufactured sometime between 1260 and 1390 A.D. The team concluded the Shroud was nothing more than a medieval hoax. — PBS “Secrets of the Dead - Shroud of Christ?” 2004
But rather Jesus’ appearance would have more likely resembled an early eastern Semitic man.
Assuming Jesus to be a native West Asian Galilean Semite, the study concluded in conjunction with Mark Goodacre that he would have appeared 'Middle Eastern' and his skin would have been "olive-coloured" and "swarthy".
— BBC “Son of God” 2001 docuseries
So readers should know the work being referred to is the Archko Volume. It is a 19th-century volume containing what purports to be a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Jesus that relate to the biblical texts describing his life. What is especially interesting it is said that this work was subsequently shown to have been copied almost verbatim from "Ponce Pilate à Vienne," a short story by Joseph Méry published in Revue de Paris in 1837.
You can look into it more at Wikipedia
Besides secular sources we can see early church writers (Origen, Josephus) are in agreement that Jesus’ appearance was less than desirable when reading the following scriptures:
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. — Isaiah 53:2-3
I have seen documentaries on the study done in 1988 and other studies since. More recent studies suggest the 88 study was flawed considering the convent in France where the shroud was held had a fire. Sparks burned areas of the shroud and the nuns repaired with fresh linen.
The 88 study was only allowed a very small portion to examine. The newer study found that the piece 88 had was from a repaired area. When this new study was able to dig further they found molecular particles of pollen that could only come from Israel. And also the original linen itself dated back to the time of Jesus.
The blood sample from the shroud is also very rare. AB negative. And if I recall, this was the most fascinating, there were only female chromosomes found.
This information has been scrubbed. I have been unable to find it for years.
Plus, the 88 study in my opinion, was meant to debunk and find it a hoax. It is their playbook. I also believe that Jesus’s followers would have for sure kept his wrappings to cherish as Holy. The Lord had risen from the dead. Very Holy Materials needed to be kept safe and preserved.
The circumstances of that test are highly suspicious, however... There were two men doing it, and one of them pulled a material out of his pocket that didn't appear to have been the original sample, according to the second man. That first man was a vocal and vehement skeptic. Tests done later disprove that one, solitary, much-quoted test, but the media ignores them. It's been proven real.
Edit- however, the Roman letters at the time do describe Jesus as having fair hair and light eyes.
I want to believe the letters that pilot wrote to Herod and Caesar about Jesus. I fear those may be a hoax.
I would like to see other letters pilot wrote to see if he spoke in the same manner in his writings. The letters seem middle age English.
I also think Jesus would laugh at us discussing his looks and hair length. It really doesn’t matter. But I find it interesting. Jesus was a Nazarene. I did read the Nazarenes were blonde haired and blue eyed.
shroud scholars have been increasingly all over this result the last few decades - there's a lot of contention that samples were taken from repaired sections and not from the original cloth. politics. plenty of scholarly differences of opinion out there.
Sorry folks don’t mean to party poop. Thought I I’ll just leave this here.
But rather Jesus’ appearance would have more likely resembled an early eastern Semitic man.
Other than that, bravo AI. Fascinating. 👏
These are documents from the time of Jesus written by Pontius Pilate and the Sanhedrin amongst others, Jesus is described as having golden hair and light blue eyes. https://drive.filen.io/d/d24f5d56-f2e2-49b5-9636-f19ac585b5de#xqWgmFNHN3q2vLShZBjqyUfWlbGU09yf
So readers should know the work being referred to is the Archko Volume. It is a 19th-century volume containing what purports to be a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Jesus that relate to the biblical texts describing his life. What is especially interesting it is said that this work was subsequently shown to have been copied almost verbatim from "Ponce Pilate à Vienne," a short story by Joseph Méry published in Revue de Paris in 1837. You can look into it more at Wikipedia
Besides secular sources we can see early church writers (Origen, Josephus) are in agreement that Jesus’ appearance was less than desirable when reading the following scriptures:
You can read more on this exposition here.
Your depth of knowledge is refreshing and now I have additional research to add to this list.
Wikipedia? Please.... That site is a joke. Have you a more believable source?
I have seen documentaries on the study done in 1988 and other studies since. More recent studies suggest the 88 study was flawed considering the convent in France where the shroud was held had a fire. Sparks burned areas of the shroud and the nuns repaired with fresh linen.
The 88 study was only allowed a very small portion to examine. The newer study found that the piece 88 had was from a repaired area. When this new study was able to dig further they found molecular particles of pollen that could only come from Israel. And also the original linen itself dated back to the time of Jesus.
The blood sample from the shroud is also very rare. AB negative. And if I recall, this was the most fascinating, there were only female chromosomes found.
This information has been scrubbed. I have been unable to find it for years.
Plus, the 88 study in my opinion, was meant to debunk and find it a hoax. It is their playbook. I also believe that Jesus’s followers would have for sure kept his wrappings to cherish as Holy. The Lord had risen from the dead. Very Holy Materials needed to be kept safe and preserved.
The circumstances of that test are highly suspicious, however... There were two men doing it, and one of them pulled a material out of his pocket that didn't appear to have been the original sample, according to the second man. That first man was a vocal and vehement skeptic. Tests done later disprove that one, solitary, much-quoted test, but the media ignores them. It's been proven real.
Edit- however, the Roman letters at the time do describe Jesus as having fair hair and light eyes.
I want to believe the letters that pilot wrote to Herod and Caesar about Jesus. I fear those may be a hoax.
I would like to see other letters pilot wrote to see if he spoke in the same manner in his writings. The letters seem middle age English.
I also think Jesus would laugh at us discussing his looks and hair length. It really doesn’t matter. But I find it interesting. Jesus was a Nazarene. I did read the Nazarenes were blonde haired and blue eyed.
Who knows, at least we are discussing Him.
shroud scholars have been increasingly all over this result the last few decades - there's a lot of contention that samples were taken from repaired sections and not from the original cloth. politics. plenty of scholarly differences of opinion out there.
I wonder which god these "scientist" worship.