regarding what jesus is made to look like in artwork, in most paintings, sculptures, statues etc., do you think his appearance should be more accurately depicted according to historians and researchers?
do you believe he is accurately portrayed?
do you attach any importance to this(his physical appearance)? or it doesn't matter to you?
has jesus been hijacked by white people? and made to look like a white man...
I think that thanks to Greek historians who were very outspoken and liked accuracy in their descriptions, we do have an idea of what the Jews of the late ancient age looked like.
We know as fact that it was difficult to distinguish a Greek person from a Phoenician / Carthaginian one, and those were Semites (Diodorus, Herodotus).
Not to mention that Greeks were obsessed with eugenics...
Since races are a product of climate, it's obvious there cannot be a relevant difference between Greeks and Jews but there was a very big difference between Greeks and Celts. Besides, in Rome there was a significant number of redheads like Sulla and Nero...
The fact that the Jews in Rome (today known as Italkim) always had a privileged juridic status basically proves that there was no racial difference between the two groups (also thinking of how incredibly racist Romans were): they were given the status of
peregrini alicuius civitatis so they could use their Judaic laws and be dispensed from private Roman law.
So I do believe Jesus is accurately portrayed.
