Art: Whitewashing Jesus - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
While we can never be exactly sure of what Jesus, Mary and Joseph actually looked like, we know they were not fair-skinned, flaxen-haired Europeans. And, though an emerging fringe of historians would argue otherwise, it’s fairly certain they weren’t black Africans. In all likelihood, what they were was something in between: olive-skinned, dark-featured Semitic Jews living in Israel. Yet depictions of them as such are exceedingly rare compared to the countless number of images that have proliferated through the millennia portraying them as Caucasians.
Until now. With New Line Cinema’s new movie, “The Nativity Story,†we finally get what many historians agree is a more accurate representation of the Holy Family. . . .
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