Results: How did Jesus look like?

(Source:News.com.au) A new book by British historian, professor Joan Taylor, titled "What Did Jesus Look Like?" explores the controversial theory that the Nazarene was less than blessed in the looks department and may have even been disfigured. In fact, the only physical description of Christ before his crucifixion is a line in the Book of Isaiah, which reads: "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him." Did you read her book?

She believes that Jesus was "probably around [five-feet-five-inches] tall, somewhat slim and muscular, with olive-brown skin, dark brown to black hair, and brown eyes." That tallies with the findings of forensic anthropologists who have placed Christ at between 5 foot, 1 inches and 5 foot, 6 inches and weighing between 127 and 141 pounds. Did you hear about this theory before?

"In terms of a color palette then, think dark brown to black hair, deep brown eyes, olive-brown skin," she wrote in the Irish Times. "Jesus would have been a man of Middle Eastern appearance. What I have learned is that Judeans of this time were closest biologically to Iraqi Jews of the contemporary world." Her description makes sense considering where he lived and came from. Does this match your image of Jesus?

n 2015, Richard Neave, a retired medical artist from the University of Manchester, used forensic and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the face of Jesus. The result was a stunning sculpture of a swarthy, Middle Eastern man that has been recognized by experts as the most accurate portrait yet of the son of God. Neave and his research team used Semite skulls collected by Israeli archaeologists to create a computer-generated reconstruction of what Jesus may have looked like. Neave concluded that Jesus looked a lot like every other man of the times because the Bible states that just before the crucifixion, Judas Iscariot had to point Jesus out to his soldiers because they could not tell him apart from his disciples. Did you hear about this reconstruction before reading this survey?