https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Race_of_Jesus.ogv

Right We see hippies from the 60s working on Wall Street, Hollywood and London. They run the world LOL

While all the pictures definitely make him far more Northern European than he likely ever was, they have yet to put him in a three piece suit and portray him as a clean shaven, short haired banker.

Though I imagine if they thought they could get away with it they would.

You are wrong.

Semite is also a noun.

If you bothered to keep looking you’d realize that the noun Semite refers today to people who trace their origins back to various peoples of the ancient Middle East such as, but not limited to the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews (Jews), Arabs, and their descendants. Encyclopedia Britannica is the general source for that.

Furthermore as an adverb Semitic modifies any number of things beyond language.

The Semitic languages are an aspect of the much larger world of Semitic cultures that call the Middle East their home despite now having a presence throughout the world.

Finally Jews and Arabs who have left the Middle East and live in countries like the USA often speak only English, but are no less a Semite than an Arab or Jew in Israel or Qatar.

Perhaps you think ethnicity is a synonym for the outdated term “race”. If so it is not.

Ethnicity has a valid meaning rooted in anthropology ans sociology whereas race long ago was discarded by the scientific community as a false paradigm by which to define any group of people, because we are all mixed with something.

“The Semitic languages are a language family originating in the Near East whose living representatives are spoken by more than 470 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa. They constitute a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. The most widely spoken Semitic languages today are (numbers given are for native speakers only) Arabic (300 million),[1] Amharic (21.8 million),[2] Hebrew (7 million),[3][4][5] Tigrinya (6.7 million),[6] and Aramaic (550,000).”

It is utmost unscientific to use the term Semite or Semitic by referring to ethnicity!!!

1. He was at least half Middle Eastern – other half left up to dispute, depending on what one believes in.

2. Who says his hair was long – unless he was actually a Nazarite (who didn’t shave or cut their hair)?

3. More than likely, his Divinity only was added onafterwards by people like Saul of Tarsus , otherwise known as Paul. The Jewish – Roman historian Josephus Flavius didn’t mention a word about him.

We’ll never know the truth as there wasn’t any Wikipedia in those days.

Having gone to Catholic schools til I was 18, the Jesus I was surrounded by looked most like “Bachelor No. 4” above.

Wonder now if coloring him as a boy band member worked to make kids connect better with the school agenda (even if it’s implausible that THAT guy could wield a hammer and saw!).