• neptune@dmv.socialOPEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      The joke is more about Americans thinking a bronze age man in the middle east looking like a white American or European.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
        13·
        9 months ago

        The Iron Age(s) started several hundred years before the Roman conquest of Judaea.

        The Hittites in Anatolia, basically next door to the area, were among the first to discover iron working.

      • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
        41·
        9 months ago

        Chalk it up to great marketing.

        Allegedly based on a portrait of a Borgia for their imaginary savior, white-washing him. Much more palatable for the xenophobic religious zealots.

    • Zeth0s@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      In all fairness, Jesus was probably an historical figure. Everything built around his life though…