"The first English settlers in the Americas carried with them no sense of what Jesus looked like. The Bible was centra…"

"As the 19th century progressed, Americans did begin publishing and mass-producing images of Jesus. New roads and cana…"

"According to Taylor's research, rather than towering over others in Judea, Jesus was about 5 foot 5 inches (1.7 meter…"

"Jesus is portrayed in the gospels as a carpenter who did a lot of walking but at times didn't have much to eat. This …"

"If Jesus were handsome, Taylor said, the gospel writers, or other early Christian writers, would have said so, as the…"

"When the man who is deemed the central figure of a religion and indeed the savior of the entire world is consistently…"

"While shades of brown are debated, it is clear that Jesus was not white. The earliest depictions of an adult Jesus sh…"

"How would Nafisa experience Christians if those Christians saw a manger scene on every corner with dark-skinned refug…"

"In fact this familiar image of Jesus actually comes from the Byzantine era, from the 4th Century onwards, and Byzanti…"

"If he had had even slightly long hair, we would expect some reaction. Jewish men who had unkempt beards and were slig…"