Jesus was White

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[–]Dragonerne[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They weren't European but they were white and more genetically similar to Europeans than modern middle eastern

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think in the classical history you have to think of the Mediterranean world as a continent in itself.

Everywhere along that coast people would have been more related to each other than to inland peoples.

The races only started to divide along continental lines when the rivalry between Christianity and Islam geared up.

So North Africa would be included as part of that classical race but North West Europe (which pretty much defines whiteness) would not.

[–]Dragonerne[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes Jesus wasn't Scandinavian but he was white, and he wasn't black or brown nor an edomite jew.

And I'll just repeat that science says that genetically the levant was closer to Europeans than to brown arabs of today.