What did Jesus look like? Part 4: Jesus’ Race
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.
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Imagining Capernaum: The Village of Jesus
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 …
What did Jesus look like? — Part 3: The Face of Jesus
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 …
What did Jesus look like? — Part 2: The Jewish Body
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 …
What did Jesus look like? — Part 1: Clothing
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 …
The Violent Childhood of Jesus
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 …
Top 5 Reasons you should know about Flavius Josephus
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. …
The World of Jesus reflected in Iraq?
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 …