What Color Was Jesus?

by William Mosley

Shatters the myth of a blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus and examines the psychological effect of the white image of Christ.

80 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1997

Reviews

[Petra X]

"Shatters the myth of a blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus and examines the psychological effect of the white image of Christ." I've never seen a blue-eyed, blond depiction of Jesus. He is always of typical Middle Eastern appearance, brown-haired and brown-eyed. White, yes, but people from the Levant are.

My son had his DNA done - it was a real mixture as we expected since his father is black but his grandfather was white and I am white, Russian Ashkenazi Jewish. Except I'm not. The mitrochondrial dna was 100% ancient Levantine. So I, like millions despite Hitler there are still millions of Jews although 6 million and all their descendents, some of them my family, are missing of Jews who thought that they would have Ashkenazi Jewish DNA, actually turn out to be from the ten lost tribes all of whom were finally dispersed at the destruction of the second temple, which was after Jesus's death.

So if my birth family never got mixed in all that time and are white and we are from the same part of the world, why would Jesus not have been white? My family are not white anymore though - my son is mixed race so my grandchildren will be too. And I can see there are a lot of social issues around race - we experience them - but I can't see that saying Jesus was black is anything but a fiction that wouldn't do any good, because how could it be true?

[Manny]