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Originally posted by asaris
And second, anti-arab feeling, which was particularly strong in the 1600s, given the Turkish siege of Vienna. So people weren't really terribly eager to see their Lord and Saviour portrayed like one of the infidel invaders of Christian Europe.
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Very interesting point. The anti-arabic feeling was also pretty strong during the couple of crusades back in the 1000s and 1100s and so on. Imagine if they had picutred Jesus as an Arabic looking person. Then during the crusades they'd be killing thousands of guys who looked just like Jesus...
As far as religion goes, it doesn't matter one bit what Jesus looked like. Historically, he looked like all the other people living in ancient Judea back then.