Earliest Depictions of Jesus in Art
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Published 2022-06-03
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Photograph of Jesus image at Shivta, Israel by Dror Maayab and reconstruction by Dr. Emma Maayan Fanar haifa.academia.edu/EmmaMaayan
Intro music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. Available from incompetech.com/
All Comments (21)
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Greek is an incredible language. I'm greek and I can read and understand, what a greek dude wrote 2.000 years ago
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This is what I like about YouTube. It would've taken me years to gather up this information from libraries and international traveling.
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Omg! I’m Greek and I can read the Ancient Greek very easily in the first depiction of Christ. Our language has not changed in thousands of years!
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There was a home excavated from the volcanic ash in Pompeii that had a cross painted on the wall over the bed so people knew the biblical story of Jesus in 79AD and worshipped Him.
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Imagine being a Roman drawing a shitpost about your Christian neighbor/friend/coworker and becoming part of history
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What’s interesting about the bonus image is that underneath “Alex worshipping his God”, someone added graffiti saying “Alex has faith.”
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if i had a time machine i’d 100% make someone paint an accurate portrait of him for everyone to see years later. how special that he have art from so long ago
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I'm in my 80s. My father was a minister. Even I at a young age knew that the 1940s picture couldn't be right. There where many jews in our community, and non of them looked anything like that picture. Yes I have wondered what Jesus may look like. But I know, no matter what he may look like physically, my knees will bow before him.
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I live in Australia. There is a church that I used to walk past every day that is, I presume, run by Korean Christians. Every year near Christmas they would put up a painting of the nativity outside the church. A big ol' picture with a barn, baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, three wise men, etc etc. In their depiction Jesus, Mary and Joseph were all clearly Korean, wearing old-fashioned Korean clothes. The three wise men looked like Confucian scholars.
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This is the gold standard of how a top 10 video should be.
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I am Jewish, Jesus saved me and made me realise the way. I am indebted to you for eternity Jesus.
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The Graffiti at the end blew me away. Jesus is Lord ✝️
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tbf depicting other races is hard, I remember in Catholic school the Nuns had brought portraits of Mary from various countries and it was so interesting to see how she varied, Samoa made her look Samoan, Japan made her look Japanese etc. It's not necessarily malicious.
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It makes perfect sense for there to be more than one interpretation - beard or no beard - because he wasn't always the same age... He had different haircuts... And then eventually people settled on one look or style. Pretty amazing. This video affirms a lot!
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To me, it doesn’t matter what Jesus looked like because the beauty of Him is that He was humble and the image of the invisible God. How great and amazing is our God w
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What's amazing are the stories being depicted, the fact that almost 300 years after Jesus's birth someone heard the story in perfect detail and drew a picture of it and the story of the woman touching his garment, its also amazing that those very stories have further survived another 1800 years and are still found word for word in our bibles. Nothing was "lost in translation", like they always try to say.
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as someone who is orthodox, the interpretation of the first icon (the Pantocrator) that’s generally accepted is that the “angry” side represents God the Righteous Judge, while the “kind” side is God the Lover of Mankind with the gospel being where the message of both comes from
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Just want to point out that the “going backwards” strategy here actually created real dramatic tension! A great job on this, as always, UsefulCharts!
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Great collection of fascinating information displayed and illustrated in an engaging way - well done. Ps Good luck in your treatment
