zeezrom wrote:Schmo, that guy was a biological son not a clone of Jenga Phet.
Hmmmm... I thought he was still a clone, just the most exact replica clone made, and his father adopted him as a son because of it.
You may be right about Boba Fett. Oops, it is spelled Fett not Phet
I remember being told that the Q12 prayed about this image: They concluded that is the best likeness of Jesus.
So, what is your favorite Jesus image if you had to choose?
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
You can think of Jesus any way you want but there is no evidence that he was black. In fact, in Ethiopian murals the apostles who converted them to Christianity were depicted as white and the Ethiopians as black.
There were Ethiopians who had Hebrew blood however, descendants of the garrisons of mercenaries hired by the Egyptians to guard their southern borders who eventually blended in with the peoples there.
Of course if you want to say that Jesus looked like the Arab people who live in that region today might he have looked like this Syrian guy?
I've always been partial to the controversially foreshortened Christs in Andrea Mategna and Andrea del Castango's work. The bloody putti in Castagno's St Jerome, added later to distract from the apparently upsetting foreshortened Trinity, are wonderfully eerie:
I also like William Holman Hunt's pre-Raphaelite Christs, too, like The Light of the World (for which he used female model, Annie Miller) and The Shadow of Death:
I'm also partial to the Jesus of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ:
and I really like this Julio Galan painting of Christ:
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
They concluded that is the best likeness of Jesus.
