Wow! Where do you have them from? Did you pick it all up from that talk?
I took notes from the talk, and then tracked down photos of all the paintings online.
Our ancestors with red or blond hair would not make any sense. The Hebrews are not related to Vikings or Celts. They should look more Arabic.
You'd be surprised. In Poland in the nineteenth century, red hair was viewed as being a sign of being Jewish. And even back in Biblical times, the Bible describes King David as having red hair. Yes, the population as a whole would have looked not dissimilar to Arabs, but there's quite a bit of variation among Arabs. I remember being surprised when I went to a Yemenite synagogue in Jerusalem how much variation there was in skin tone even amongst the people there who would have been born before the immigration to Israel.
But in any case, these paintings would have reflected the appearance of Jews in the second or third century, when they were painted, by which time not all Jewish blood was of Middle-Eastern origin.
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Date: 2010-05-04 11:25 am (UTC)I took notes from the talk, and then tracked down photos of all the paintings online.
Our ancestors with red or blond hair would not make any sense. The Hebrews are not related to Vikings or Celts. They should look more Arabic.
You'd be surprised. In Poland in the nineteenth century, red hair was viewed as being a sign of being Jewish. And even back in Biblical times, the Bible describes King David as having red hair. Yes, the population as a whole would have looked not dissimilar to Arabs, but there's quite a bit of variation among Arabs. I remember being surprised when I went to a Yemenite synagogue in Jerusalem how much variation there was in skin tone even amongst the people there who would have been born before the immigration to Israel.
But in any case, these paintings would have reflected the appearance of Jews in the second or third century, when they were painted, by which time not all Jewish blood was of Middle-Eastern origin.