Jesus middle eastern?

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VERY doubtful...He fit in with other Jews...there was nothing about Him that appeared different from other Jews...

There is nothing in the Bible that states he "fit in" like an undercover police officer.
 
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He was Israeli, and looked just like Israeli men of today.
Like these Israeli Men of Today?
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Those are likely shepardic Jews, Jews who fled to Ethiopia or were converts down is Axum during the Roman Era. Their skin is much darker from mixing with Ethiopians.
Its interesting that Jews have so many mixed races when they were told in their sacred text not to mix with other nations.
 
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The khazars, a eastern European nation that lived in what is now Crimea. They had an alliance with Byzantium for several centuries but they were all Jewish converts from Tengri (asiatic steppe paganism)

Later they settled in the Rus, Poland, and Hungary.

The Khazarian hypothesis of the Ashkenazi origin has been proved to be wrong. Some Khazars converted but that was NOT the origin of the Ashkenazim.
 
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Its interesting that Jews have so many mixed races when they were told in their sacred text not to mix with other nations.

There was a mixed multitude that left from Egypt...
 
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There is nothing in the Bible that states he "fit in" like an undercover police officer.

Actually there is. He was like unto His brothers. He could move through crowds without standing out. They needed Judas to point Him out.
 
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The Khazarian hypothesis of the Ashkenazi origin has been proved to be wrong. Some Khazars converted but that was NOT the origin of the Ashkenazim.

Yes I believe we've had this debate before. So how exactly did the Eastern European Jews come about? And why do they have distinct DNA?
 
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2000 years ago? What do you think?

How long ago does not matter on this subject. Humans have been living in the area millions of years. People have been living in Europe almost the same amount of time.
 
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Actually there is. He was like unto His brothers. He could move through crowds without standing out. They needed Judas to point Him out.
Look at your profile picture. Its easy with such head covering to be unnoticed in a crowd.

And Judas came in night, I think.

BTW the person on your profile picture have a normal European/Caucasian look :)
 
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2000 years ago? What do you think?

What does that have to do with anything? If anything 2000 years ago was a time when North Africa, the Middle East, and Persia were all colonized heavily by Greeks and Roman's who were white. The Phonecians colonized almost the entire Mediterranean including Palestine.
 
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Was Jesus middle eastern? Or was he Caucasian?
It depends what you mean by middle-eastern and it depends what you mean by Caucasian. We carry a lot of unspoken meaning in words and I think the OP may be too ambiguous not to mention neither of these terms were used in the 1st century.

Perhaps some pictures would help?
 
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It depends what you mean by middle-eastern and it depends what you mean by Caucasian. We carry a lot of unspoken meaning in words and I think the OP may be too ambiguous not to mention neither of these terms were used in the 1st century.

Perhaps some pictures would help?

Thanks I'm always open for discussion. Which pictures?
 
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Actually, no, He HAD to be a Jew...

Well, to fulfill the prophecy as being from the line of David, but as long as that condition was fulfilled there could be any other ethnic makeup in His family tree.
 
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Well, to fulfill the prophecy as being from the line of David, but as long as that condition was fulfilled there could be any other ethnic makeup in His family tree.

And what would that be?
 
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Look at your profile picture. Its easy with such head covering to be unnoticed in a crowd.

And Judas came in night, I think.

BTW the person on your profile picture have a normal European/Caucasian look :)

That is a tallit, a prayer shawl. So why does it look "normal European/Caucasian"?
 
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