Was Jesus an Askhenazi, a Sephardic or a Mizrahi jew?

Question

And how accurate was the portrayal of Jesus and the people at the time and in that area, in the film Jesus of Nazareth?

Answer 1

Jesus was the defacto leader of a Jewish cult called the Essenes.

Answer 2

Yes what GenevievesMom said is true. However, since the Mizrahi Jews are Jews that never left the middle East region it is likely that Christ resembled them more than the others since Ashkenazi Jews spend almost 2000 years in Europe and Sephardic Jews in Spain and Portugal and may have mixed with other ethnicities while there

Answer 3

He was not any of these because those were not really defined, at least in the way we define them today, until many centuries after Jesus lived.

That he was a Jew there is no doubt. That he adhered to the traditions and practices of the day is also not in doubt. But, it would present a very interesting debate as to which of the sects you propose he was most likely to have belonged to, if they existed in the 21st century forms in the 1st century.

Usually the most obvious connection is made between Jesus and the Essene community. Even this, however, is debatable.

Answer 4

Nobody really knows whether Jesus was even Jewish or not. He was born in Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee, which means he might have been either Semitic or Indo-Europeans. Both racial groups were major inhabitants of the middle east in those times. You should not draw the conclusion that Jesus was Jewish by limiting your multiple choice answers only to Jewish groups.

Answer 5

None of the above. The Askehanazi and Sephardics didn't even exist in the first century. He was a descendent of David and that was His only "Jewish clan". The rest came later.