I get it that maybe he was slightly brown, but he was a jew and jews are not particularly dark, but from this they came to the conclusion that he is black?
Jesus may not even have been necessarily brown-skinned despite being a Galilean Jew, anyway. He lived before Rome deported the Jews from Judea and long before the Arabs swept into the Levant, so there's a decent chance that he (and indeed other Jews at the time) would have physically had more in common with the other Aramaic-speaking Middle Easterners of the time.
Now since high school I've been friends with an Assyrian girl from northern Iraq, and she doesn't exactly look like the stereotypical Arab, heck she's paler than most white people I know. Obviously she isn't representative of every single Syriac out there, nor does this mean Jesus too must be pale as driven snow, but I'd buy that he was long before I'd buy that he looked like a Nubian as the first picture in the linked article suggests.
northern Lebanese mountain men are light skinned blondes with blue eyes but with Arab features: almond shaped eyes, big noses, bushy eyebrows, thick hair, etc.
I get it that maybe he was slightly brown, but he was a jew and jews are not particularly dark, but from this they came to the conclusion that he is black?
Jesus may not even have been necessarily brown-skinned despite being a Galilean Jew, anyway. He lived before Rome deported the Jews from Judea and long before the Arabs swept into the Levant, so there's a decent chance that he (and indeed other Jews at the time) would have physically had more in common with the other Aramaic-speaking Middle Easterners of the time.
Now since high school I've been friends with an Assyrian girl from northern Iraq, and she doesn't exactly look like the stereotypical Arab, heck she's paler than most white people I know. Obviously she isn't representative of every single Syriac out there, nor does this mean Jesus too must be pale as driven snow, but I'd buy that he was long before I'd buy that he looked like a Nubian as the first picture in the linked article suggests.
northern Lebanese mountain men are light skinned blondes with blue eyes but with Arab features: almond shaped eyes, big noses, bushy eyebrows, thick hair, etc.