Color

[mjterry87]

Not that it really matters, but what color was Yeshua? The Christians show him as a white guy, like from the UK or western Europe, but how could he have been white? If people in Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt are of Arab origin, then wouldn't Yeshua and the ancient Jews be before they were exiled out of Israel by the Romans? Maybe I already have the answer, but what is your opnion on this?

 

[Henaynei]

Geneticlly he was Semetic, and would have been swarthy - much the same tonation as the Arabs in the area today.... perhaps even darker..... no can know for sure

 

[Jasmine-FL]

I'm confused torahlife the link you provided comes to the conclusion that modern-day Jews are not really the children of Israel mentioned in the Bible?

 

[rooster]

I think that website with the type of evidence it produces does not make itself authoritative on the issue of both the colour of ancient israelites and the authenticity of present day israelites.
First of all the only "evidence" it uses to prove that Ashkenazi Jews are not related to the ancient hebrews was the issue of colour.
Then it goes on to selectively draw out "proofs" that seems to show that egyptians are black (the proofs themselves seems only half good) and from inferences in the bible that early hebrews look like egyptians and thus are black too.
Too many leaps.
First of there are even more evidence revealing that the egyptians are dark brown and even light brown/yellowish. Why did the author not reveal this?
And it would that way before Abrams was called out from Mesopotamia, the egyptians through migrations, invasion, integration had already forged a race that is distinct from their African cousins. Philogically and culturally the egytians have more in common with the asiatics then with Africans by the time of Joseph.
The site seems agenda driven and lack certain objectivity.
I am sure there are here more qualified to speak for the ancestry of European Jews and world Jewry in general.
I mean no disrespect to Torahlife but i would read the stuff from that site with a large pinch of salt.

 

[rooster]

Oh yah and at the time of Joseph, the rulers of egypt were probably the semitic Hyksos.
Anyway i go with Henaynai. They probably looked like the arabs we know today, brown skinned......... big noses

 

[Henaynei]

I'm confused torahlife the link you provided comes to the conclusion that modern-day Jews are not really the children of Israel mentioned in the Bible?

Jasmine, sorry, that link was posted in error It has been removed. If you have any further questions about that link feel free to PM one of the mods who will be blessed to help

 

[Mary_Magdalene]

me too. i always pictured Him as arab-looking, dark hair, skin, eyes. i get a kick out of the light brown hair, blue eyed Jesus' in the movies...