If you like this subject could be up for debate with me. you may msg me on my AIM screen name. Teddybear010606 whenever you feel like debating. although jesus is and was black.
2006-09-07 15:03:43 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
i don't think anything is proven...but i have read that he looked more middle eastern than black. but no i have no need to debate this with you.
2006-09-07 15:06:11 · answer #1 · answered by . 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How could he be? What a bizarre notion. He came from a known and accepted family in Israel. Middle eastern Semite yes, with all that means(something you may look up).He was about five feet eight inches, heavily tanned, brown hair and eyes, short curly hair. As a carpenter he would be well muscled and better fed than most. Intelligent and articulate. He was ,from the prominent voice he became very brave. He would have known what danger he was placing himself in when he spoke out, perhaps that is why he waited till he was thirty or he was waiting until he was of an age that his culture would listen to. We know that he was respected, married and well established in business. This is shown because he was invited to read from the Torah and discuss it in the synagogue. And not just temples in his home town but when he travelled. If he was not of good character he would not be in the temple, if he was not married he would not have been able to speak in the holy place. He would not have been allowed to even if it meant physical restraint. I don't know how you became convinced that Jesus was black or why you wish to believe this theory but there is nothing to support the idea or even show the presence of blacks as common citizens in the area or for that matter north of the Atlas mountains in North Africa. An area still under the control of the Tuareg's who are white. And their origins are indeed debatable.
2006-09-07 18:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was semitic. That does not mean he was black.
Modern science, in contrast, identifies an ethnic group's common physical descent through genetic research, and analysis of the Semitic peoples suggests that they share a significant common ancestry. Though no significant common mitochondrial results have been yielded, Y-chromosomal links between Near-Eastern peoples like the Palestinians, Syrians and ethnic Jews have proved fruitful, despite differences contributed from other groups (see Y-chromosomal Aaron). Although population genetics is still a young science, it seems to indicate that a significant proportion of these peoples' ancestry comes from a common Near Eastern population to which (despite the differences with the Biblical genealogy) the term Semitic has been applied.
FBOMONKEY - There are black Jews. Ethopia has had a large population of black Jews. It has been speculated that they came from The Queen of Sheba and Solomon. A lot the Ethopian Jews have gone to Israel - because the were being killed in Ethopia.
2006-09-07 16:36:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't totally agree or disagree with you on that supposition.
Jesus was probably Afro-Asiatic and so he had a much darker skin tone than how he he been depicted by artists for more than 2 thousand years. Aramaic is believed to have been the native language of Jesus. Aramaic is a Semitic language with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship. It is the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud. Modern Aramaic is spoken today as a first language by numerous, scattered communities, most significantly by Assyrians. The language is considered to be endangered. Aramaic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family. Within that diverse family, it belongs to the Semitic subfamily. Aramaic is a part of the Northwest Semitic group of languages, which also includes the Canaanite languages (such as Hebrew).
So if he spoke Aramaic and was of Afro-Asiatic descent then the chances are that he would have appeared to have been black (as compared to caucasian) but wasn't totally African.
2006-09-07 16:02:00 · answer #4 · answered by Judith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was of middle eastern origin. he would have looked like many arabs and jewish people in that are look today. He was not African and did not come from Africa. He was olive skinned most likely reflecting his heritage and the people of the mid east. Ive never seen any credible evidence to support the rather ridiculous notion he was black.
2006-09-07 15:10:19 · answer #5 · answered by Kevin P 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
what kind of a racist BS question is that? Do you truly imagine that race is going to be a aspect in "Heaven"? Race kin individuals are going to be a topic contained in the most proper position ever created? If people had an situation with it... then i might want to discover someplace else to stay... the position they don't look.
2016-11-25 19:59:32 · answer #6 · answered by killeen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no evidence that jesus was black, white, brindle,and does it really matter after all he was just another prophet of the time,or is it that you are black and you think that it makes you more superior ?,if thats the case then you are a racist ratbag,
2006-09-07 15:11:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The color of the skin of a teacher is not important to the lessons being taught.
2006-09-08 05:30:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus lived in the middle east, so he would have had more of a Arab look in reality
2006-09-07 15:09:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
whatever, i'd like to see some scripture saying that. He would have been darker skinned, having been an Israelite, but there werent that many Africans living in Israel back then...lol
2006-09-07 15:08:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋