Yeshua Was a Dark Brown-Skinned Semitic Refugee

One of the earliest images of the Messiah, painted in the Roman catacombs centuries before Europe rewrote the visuals, showing Yeshua (YHWH Saves): a dark-brown skinned, dark curly short-haired Semitic refugee-immigrant from the Galilean ‘ghetto,’ remembered as his own people saw Him, not as later empires rebranded Him.

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Ancient writers described Jews as resembling Egyptians and Ethiopians;

early Christian art (before Europe) shows Jesus as dark-skinned;

genetics confirms 1st-century Judeans were medium-brown to very dark-brown;

and the family’s flight to Egypt only makes sense if they blended in.