14 thoughts on “JFC, NYT!”

1. There are some who feel that Jesus was a red head because He was of the lineage of David, who was also thought to be a red head. Still, seeing a pale, red headed Jesus is rather jarring given the part of the world He was from.

2. What an idiot. Jesus is Latino and plays first base for Milwaukee.

3. Jesus was a Palestinian though, as that was the historical name of the Israelites given to them by the Romans.

   It’s always funny to see Christophobes think its some sort of gotcha that Jesus wasn’t European as if it would cause people to reject their faith out of racism. But Christians are well aware, and have been for a looong time, that Jesus wasn’t European and don’t care.

   1. Also IIRC, the name Palestine was supposed to be an insulting variation of Philistine, one of Israel’s enemies. But the Philistines were more like Greeks than middle westerners.

      1. And were long gone by the time Romans renamed the province to “Syria Palaestina”, more or less deliberately as a snub to the rebellious Jews.

         (The Romans called it Judea, until they got royally sick of constant rebellion, and as far as I know always called the Jews “iūdaeus” – “people from Judaea”, from which “Jews” today.

         The Romans didn’t generally call Jews “Palestinians”/”Philistines”, and didn’t rename the province until a century or so after Christ’s death.)

         1. If it hadn’t been for the rivalry between the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front, none of this might ever have been an issue.

   2. The Romans called the province that included Jerusalem and Bethlehem Judea during His lifetime. The name “Palestine” came much later.

   3. Yet Israelis are Europeans for purposes of soccer, basketball and Eurovision.

      1. Even odder, according to every historical documentary and costume drama that I’ve seen, the Romans all spoke with upper-class British accents. You’d think they’d at least have thick Italian accents and sound like someone in The Godfather or The Sopranos, but instead they spoke like the Earl of Grantham on Downton Abbey.

         1. Mycenaean and Hellenic Greeks too. Plus a lot of Egyptians. It’s the darnedest thing.

            1. And the baddies in Star Wars.

4. Funny, isn’t it, how only cyborgs speak with German accents? “I’ll be Bach, You be Beethoven…”

   There’s an old theory, originating with archaeologist Cyrus Gordon ca. 1962 (and loudly shouted down in the field) that the Philistines were Pelasgians (the pre-Greek inhabitants of Peloponesia) and that both they and the Minoans spoke Afro-Asiatic Languages. Gordon has pretty convincing linguistic evidence support his alleges (and ignored) translation of Linear A. Michael Ventris much celebrated translation of Linear B in 1959 was accepted because it showed Mycenean was an early dialect of Greek.

   A later offshoot of Gordon’s work was the idiotic Black Athena hyothesis, which is based on the idea that anything with the word Afro or Africa in it must be Black. You know, like the Egyptians were Black because Kmt is a derivitive of the Coptic word for black, Chemistry is the proper Black Science by the same reasoning? Thankfully, most of this silliness has died out, and Academia has moved on to bigger, better and far sillier Intersections.

5. Aren’t Jews and Arabs related?

   1. In that they’re both Semitic, yes.

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