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• What Did Jesus Look Like? by Joan E. Taylor
• Jose de Carvalho

After obtaining a B.A. degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, Joan Taylor completed her postgraduate studies at the University of Otago, with NT studies as her major, before attending the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (Kenyon Institute) as an annual scholar in 1986. She undertook a Ph.D. degree in early Christian history and archaeology at New College, Edinburgh University, and was appointed in 1992 to the position of Lecturer (and subsequently Senior Lecturer) at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in both the departments of Religious Studies and of History. In 1995, she won an Irene Levi-Sala Award in the Archaeology of Israel for the book version of her Ph.D. thesis, Christians and the Holy Places (1993, rev. 2003; Oxford: Clarendon). During 1996–1997, she was a visiting lecturer and research associate in Women's Studies in New Testament at Harvard Divinity School, a position she held in association with a Fulbright Award. She has also been an honorary research fellow in the departments of History and of Jewish Studies at University College London, and has taught at King's College London since 2009.

The question of what Jesus would have looked like continues to fascinate scholars. Traditionally, Jesus is depicted as a handsome, fair-skinned man with long flowing locks down to his shoulders, light brown hair parted in the middle, blue eyes, a light beard and pristine linen robes. His face is somewhat feminine and serene, with slightly pink cheeks. How did the image of Jesus evolve to project a European man who does not fit the visualisation of a Mediterranean man and certainly not a Jew from Judaea, a depiction in which one would expect the portrayal of a man with brown eyes, olive-brown skin and black hair?

To depict a more authentic historical Jesus, Joan Taylor, a leading Christian origins scholar, surveyed the historical evidence of prevalent images of Jesus to suggest an entirely different version of this most famous man. The book embarks on a quest that travels through time to explore how [End Page 165] different people at different times sought to provide a picture of Jesus. Taylor investigated Western art and relics, memories and traditions, and ultimately relied on early texts and archaeology to create a visualisation of Jesus that she considered to be more authentic. She also considered what excavated bones can tell about the physical appearance of Judaean men in the first century, and how this data informs Jesus's height, skin and hair, among other things. The book attempts to describe Jesus's apparel by using the evidence of Jesus's clothing in the Gospels, comparative paintings and textiles that have survived from the time of Jesus in the environment close to the Dead Sea. The book does not attempt to create a perfect photograph, but it moves us closer to a more authentic depiction than the one we have inherited, even if the result is a little blurry.

Chapter 1 is intituled "Behold the Man? The Missing Picture of Jesus' Appearance." The Bible does not provide any record of Jesus's description, so we have a missing picture and a blank canvas that many would like to sketch on—providing fertile ground for misrepresentation.

Chapter 2, intituled "The European Jesus: The Letter of Lentulus," evaluates the possibility that the traditional depiction of Jesus emanates from a letter allegedly written by a Roman official named Lentulus. The letter described Jesus as follows:

He is a man indeed tall in stature and admirable, having a countenance worthy of respect, which those who look on him are able to esteem and fear. He has hair of the colour of an unripe hazelnut, and it falls smoothly about to his ears, then from his ears in curling locks a bit darker and shinier, flowing over his shoulders. He has a parting at the middle of the head according to the manner of the Nazarenes. He has a smooth and...

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• 耶稣长什么样？琼·泰勒（Joan E.Taylor）
• 何塞·德·卡瓦略

After obtaining a B.A. degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, Joan Taylor completed her postgraduate studies at the University of Otago, with NT studies as her major, before attending the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (Kenyon Institute) as an annual scholar in 1986. She undertook a Ph.D. degree in early Christian history and archaeology at New College, Edinburgh University, and was appointed in 1992 to the position of Lecturer (and subsequently Senior Lecturer) at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in both the departments of Religious Studies and of History. In 1995, she won an Irene Levi-Sala Award in the Archaeology of Israel for the book version of her Ph.D. thesis, Christians and the Holy Places (1993, rev. 2003; Oxford: Clarendon). During 1996–1997, she was a visiting lecturer and research associate in Women's Studies in New Testament at Harvard Divinity School, a position she held in association with a Fulbright Award. She has also been an honorary research fellow in the departments of History and of Jewish Studies at University College London, and has taught at King's College London since 2009.

耶稣会是什么样子的问题继续使学者们着迷。传统上，耶稣被描绘成一个英俊，皮肤白皙的人，他的肩膀上流淌着长长的锁，浅褐色的头发在中间散开，蓝眼睛，浅胡须和质朴的亚麻长袍。他的脸有些女人味和安详，脸颊略带粉红色。耶稣的形象如何演变为投射出一个欧洲人，他不适合地中海人的形象，当然也不适合来自犹太人的犹太人。在这种描写中，人们会期望描绘一个棕色眼睛，橄榄棕色皮肤的人的写照。和黑头发？

为了描绘出更真实的历史耶稣，著名的基督教起源学者琼·泰勒（Joan Taylor）对耶稣盛行的图像的历史证据进行了调查，提出了这个最著名人物的完全不同的版本。该书着手进行一个时空探索，以探索[End Page 165]不同的人在不同的时期试图提供耶稣的画像。泰勒研究了西方艺术和文物，记忆和传统，并最终依靠早期的文字和考古学来创造出她认为更真实的耶稣形象。她还考虑了挖掘出来的骨头能告诉我们一世纪犹太人的外表，以及这些数据如何反映耶稣的身高，皮肤和头发等。该书试图通过使用耶稣在福音书中的衣服，比较画作和纺织品的证据来描述耶稣的服装，这些证据是从耶稣时代起就在死海附近幸存下来的。这本书并非试图创作出完美的照片，但它使我们比我们继承的照片更接近真实的描写，

第一章的主题是“看哪一个人？耶稣出世的遗像”。圣经没有提供有关耶稣描述的任何记录，因此我们有许多人想在上面描绘的遗失图片和空白画布，这为错误陈述提供了沃土。

第2章的标题是“欧洲耶稣：伦托鲁斯的信”，它评估了传统的对耶稣的描绘是否起源于据称由罗马官员伦托鲁斯写的信的可能性。信中对耶稣的描述如下：

他确实是个身材高大，令人钦佩的人，有着值得尊重的容颜，仰望他的人能够尊重和恐惧。他的头发颜色像未成熟的榛子，光滑地滑落到他的耳朵上，然后从耳朵里卷曲的发丝从他的肩膀上流下来，变得更黑和更亮。根据拿撒勒人的方式，他在头部中间分开。他有一个光滑而...