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A Natural Blond?

The definitive comment for me about whether or not The Passion of the Christ was anti Semitic or not, was made by a movie reviewer, whose name I can't remember, who said that all the bad Jews looked Semitic and all the good Jews looked Norwegian.

I think of this comment all the time now when I look at portrayals of Jesus. For the most part, I'd say he had a strong and surprising Norwegian genetic heritage.

Except for one picture I saw in the NY Times of a Christian Lebanese household, where Jesus appeared to be decidedly Mediterranean -- heavy lidded brown eyes, dark hair, long high-bridged nose, elongated oval face. He looked very sorrowful.

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