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What Did Jesus Look Like?
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Description
Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes.
But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus overly westernized and untrue to historical reality?
This question continues to fascinate. Leading Christian Origins scholar Joan E. Taylor surveys the historical evidence, and the prevalent image of Jesus in art and culture, to suggest an entirely different vision of this most famous of men.
He may even have had short hair.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Behold the Man? The Missing Picture of Jesus' Appearance
2. The Ethnicity of Jesus: From the Apostle Paul to the Letter of Lentulus
3. True Image: The Legend of Veronica
4. Jesus' Self-Portrait: The Lateran Acheropita, the Mandylion and the Turin Shroud
5 Christ Almighty: The Byzantine Cosmocrator
6. Boy Wonder-Worker: Jesus in Early Christian Art
7. Ugly or Unstable: Suffering Servant or Polymorph
8. Beard and Basics: The Ragged Philosopher
9. Flesh and Bones: Age, Height, and Body
10. Top to Toe: Dressing Jesus
11. What Jesus Looked Like
List of Image Credits
Index
Product details
Published | Feb 08 2018 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 288 |
ISBN | 9780567671493 |
Imprint | T&T Clark |
Illustrations | 77 colour illus |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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[What did Jesus Look Like?] is a rich and lavishly illustrated adventure into a vexing historical question.
Biblical Theology Bulletin
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[A] fascinating book. 5*
The Sunday Telegraph
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This instructive and superbly illustrated study is a joy to read.
Times Literary Supplement
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[Taylor] has an enviable eye for the practicalities of life in the New Testament's world … It must be a promising sign, wishing a book did not end when it does.
The Daily Telegraph
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[A] wide-ranging, richly illustrated study.
The Daily Mail
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Joan E. Taylor holds a well-deserved reputation as an eminent scholar of the historical Jesus, and this book will increase readers' appreciation for her perceptive analysis and research… a beautiful and highly recommended book.
Catholic Biblical Quarterly