Has the earliest portrait of Jesus just been found?
A shock discovery in Bible scholarship
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7 min readApr 9, 2024
The Bible says little about what Jesus looked like, and Christianity seems not to know either. He is presented looking like any range of men—especially that Italian guy with very amazing hair.
But a startling possibility comes in view. A painting of a Jewish man done around 244 A.D. has had a hazy identification. The scholar…