Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Jesus' physical appearance Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 03:09:42 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article schiller@src.sony.co.jp (Christoph SCHILLER) writes: > I recenly found a book in which it was stated that there is > an old tradition that Jesus was born with a bad leg, had > curved shoulders and was in general of ugly appearance. > > Does anybody have any information on this tradition ? > More details, more references, etc? Seems to me he did an awful lot of walking for someone who had a bad leg. He kept walking up and down the country of Israel, for instance. One could probably check some of the passages that describe those walks and get an idea of how fast he could travel, and whether it makes any sense at all to think he had a bad leg. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu