This Christmas let’s remember this fact…
I’m not even Christian and I still feel compelled to reblog geographically ethnically accurate Jesus
#athiestsforblackjesus
“Geographically ethnically accurate Jesus”?!?
I see no geographically ethnically accurate Jesus here.
Jesus was born and raised in first century Palestine. He wasn’t from Africa or Europe. An African Jesus is no more accurate than a European Jesus.
Jesus would have likely looked something like this:
Interpretative paintings based upon a reconstruction by British medical artist Richard Neave, of what a 1st Century A.D. Semitic man might have looked like during Jesus Christ’s life time.
Appearing within the CNN special ‘The Mystery of Jesus’
Three portaits, 12” x 16” Oil on Paper on Panel
© 2004 Donato Giancola
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I have to wonder why people are so uncomfortable with the idea of a Semitic Jesus,
I have to wonder why people are so uncomfortable with the idea of an ethnically Jewish Jesus.
No, actually, I don’t have to wonder, I know exactly why.
But Jesus always has beard… always
Hi! This is because the shaving of the beard with a razor is actually forbidden by Leviticus, and it was a law that was strictly followed by teachers in Judaism at the time, although currently it’s a bit more lax in many traditions. Since Jesus was considered to be a rabbi (a teacher), it’s assumed that he didn’t shave his beard. At most, he would have trimmed it.
(Source: alwaysbewoke, via adelindschade)
