Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: barry1@ihlpa.att.com (Barry O Olson) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The physical appearance of Jesus Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 07:53:37 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Hi, some may not be familiar with me. I usually hang out on t.r.m. I am a product of the charasmatic movement in the late seventies and right now am not a member of any denominational church, or any church for that matter. > >Josephus, Jesus was a member of the nomadic race of Kenites - not > >Jewish at all. He was also, according to the same source, very dark, > >and stooped - maybe to the point of disability (which gives a savage > >twist to the taunt `physician heal thyself'). But no one much believes > >in the Slavonic Josephus text. > I've read somewhere (Hermas? non-canonical book) that this description above was attributed to Paul(Saul of Tarsus), which was to explain the thorn in his side thing, e.g., (ugly, stooped). Anyone else read this? barry olson