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    The Face of Jesus

    Have you guys seen this? It's trending on FB right now.

    This Forensic Recreation of Jesus Christ Is Not the Same Guy You Remember from Church

    The world is familiar with the Western depiction of Jesus Christ in art: a be-robed, pale-skinned, svelte man with fair hair and eyes.

    But Richard Neave has thrown a wrench in the Eurocentric depiction of Christianity's founding son. Using forensic data from the skulls of first century Jewish men, the British anatomical artist retired from University of Manchester, reimagined Jesus' face.

    Neave looked at the skulls of Semites from around Galilee in Northern Israel, recreating them with the help of a series of computerized x-rays. He augmented his research — for example, for Jesus' hair — by examining drawings depicting the average man from this region and time to fill in the remaining gaps. Gone are the Princess Buttercup locks.

    While Neave's image of Jesus was first published on Popular Mechanics on Jan. 23, the internet being the intractable beast that it is only picked up on it in recent days and "Jesus Christ" was trending by Monday.

    "I made a plaster cast of the skull which gives me something to work on," Neave told the BBC in 1998, describing his process after helping the police solve a murder mystery by recreating a corpse's face.

    "Then I put clay over it and, using soft tissue measurements, build up the anatomy of the face," he said. "Inevitably there are some areas where you have to speculate, particularly if parts of the skull are missing."

    As well as his work in forensic criminology, Neave has attempted to reconstruct the faces of numerous other historical figures in the past. These include King Midas of Phrygia, Alexander the Great's father and Philip II of Macedon, Popular Mechanics reports.

    The timing of the image's surge in popularity can probably be linked to Jesus's pending birthday — or whatever day Dec. 25 marks. At least we can now more realistically imagine what he'd look like in a party hat.


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    From another site:

    Richard Neave drew Jesus according to scientists’ findings of what a first century Jewish man’s features would look like. The image depicts a man with short hair, muscular build and tan skin.

    According to medieval artist/scientist, Richard Neave, Jesus is not the white, long-haired, skinny face you’ve been seeing throughout your entire life.

    Using the powers of science, Neave found three skulls from Israeli archaeological sites and used computerized tomography to construct the best shape for Jesus’s face. From his findings, Neave created a black Jesus, with a much broader nose and a new hairdo.

    Jesus

    This version of Jesus makes a lot more sense for the region in which Jesus lived. One might think the writers of the Bible would have pointed out the fact that White Jesus may have stood out in the crowd. Maybe not…

    So, since there have never been any actual drawings of Jesus discovered, scientists are calling Richard Neave’s rendition the most realistic drawing of Jesus ever created.

    http://www.missopen.com/random/medic...ical-research/

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    Well, regardless of his actual facial features, I'm convinced He is so transcendent in his beauty, it doesn't really matter what they are. He shines as bright as the brightest sun or star, and He literally emanates beauty beyond compare.....

    So what I'm saying is this. Upon seeing Him face-to-face, His facial features probably won't even catch our eye. Maybe I'm wrong, but what He "looks like" will be: The absolute, most beautiful, most lovely, most incredible, the brightest star, love pouring out of His being....will be what we perceive.

    And really, I don't even think I could even begin to actually describe Jesus in human words.

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    Then there's Akiane's Jesus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CatchyUsername View Post
    Well, regardless of his actual facial features, I'm convinced He is so transcendent in his beauty, it doesn't really matter what they are. He shines as bright as the brightest sun or star, and He literally emanates beauty beyond compare.....

    So what I'm saying is this. Upon seeing Him face-to-face, His facial features probably won't even catch our eye. Maybe I'm wrong, but what He "looks like" will be: The absolute, most beautiful, most lovely, most incredible, the brightest star, love pouring out of His being....will be what we perceive.

    And really, I don't even think I could even begin to actually describe Jesus in human words.
    I completely agree. But this is His earthly body, not His heavenly body.

    Compare that picture to what European painters have done and there's quite a difference.

    I'm sure it's not accurate (gasp! lol) but it's probably closer than any painting ever done, archeologically speaking.

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    The only caveat in this is the fact that Joseph was not His father...not sure if that would make any difference...but we know the Bible tells us He was not a man with distinct features...He was viewed as normal..typical..

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    Then there's Akiane's Jesus.

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    That was my first thought too, and then we have the recreation from the Shroud of Turin also:



    https://sonlightpicturesblog.wordpre...face-of-jesus/

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    That was my first thought too, and then we have the recreation from the Shroud of Turin also:



    https://sonlightpicturesblog.wordpre...face-of-jesus/
    I'm not sure how they could get an accurate likeness off the shroud, as for all accounts, Jesus was so beaten, he was unrecognizable... or maybe I'm getting that confused with His resurrected self.

    So then, if it was His resurrected likeness, the word says that the disciples didn't recognize Him then, either...

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    I'm not sure how they could get an accurate likeness off the shroud...
    There was a documentary made on the process a few years ago, a lot of computer 3D imaging and such. The most interesting part is that Akiane's drawing and the image made from the Shroud are pretty much identical.

    From the link I gave above:

    "...When I looked at her painting, I was reminded of Ray Downing's work. They looked alike... it made me wonder...

    So, I took both pictures and made them the same size. The only other thing I did was to align the tips of the noses to the same spot.

    They were a perfect match."

    https://sonlightpicturesblog.wordpre...face-of-jesus/


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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    There was a documentary made on the process a few years ago, a lot of computer 3D imaging and such. The most interesting part is that Akiane's drawing and the image made from the Shroud are pretty much identical.

    From the link I gave above:

    "...When I looked at her painting, I was reminded of Ray Downing’s work. They looked alike… it made me wonder…

    So, I took both pictures and made them the same size. The only other thing I did was to align the tips of the noses to the same spot.

    They were a perfect match."

    https://sonlightpicturesblog.wordpre...face-of-jesus/


    Well that's interesting, too. Thanks.

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