What did Jesus Christ really look like?

Christianity is impossible to imagine without its central figure – Jesus Christ, the Savior. Jesus is the Greek transcription of the Hebrew name Yeshua, abbreviated from Yehoshua, meaning "Jehovah's help", or "Savior". The word "Christ" is a translation into Greek of the Hebrew word "Mashiach" (anointed one), literally meaning "anointed with olive oil".

Being the Son of God, he was born of a mortal woman – the Virgin Mary – as a result, he called himself the Son of God, and – Human.

The Gospel /From Luke/ describes it this way: once upon a time there were (virgo) Maria and her husband Joseph, a carpenter, with whom she was only engaged (in the Talmud, a collection of Jewish laws, it is said that the betrothal is made by sexual intercourse and, by the way, can be carried out starting from the age of three, the same customs are among other peoples, for example, the Kazakhs – "zhastai-kudalasu" – the engagement in childhood of the bride and groom, the marriage of minors.

The famous Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven, who shot the film "Basic Instinct", wrote the book "Jesus of Nazareth: a Realistic Portrait", published in 2008, where he claims that Jesus was the son of Mary and a Roman legionnaire, and Judas did not betray Christ, but only followed his instructions.

And the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary (from Hebrew – "man of God"), and informed her that she would conceive from the Holy Spirit immaculately and her son would be the Savior. The Christian Church celebrates the Nativity of Christ exactly 9 months after the Annunciation – on March 25 (April 7), which leads to some suspicions that this is very similar to pregnancy and, judging by the icons, Jesus is extremely similar to Gabriel. A.S. Pushkin in his poem "Gavriiliada" gave a parody of this gospel story, for which he was subjected to reprisals by the tsarist authorities on denunciation.

Shepherds or magi (mentioned only in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke) who came to the manger (animal feeding place) where Jesus was, in fact, Mary was expelled by Joseph for adultery, so Jesus was in the manger, these are none other than agents of the Parthian kingdom (then called Persia, modern Iran), which It was at war with Rome, and Palestine was a territory for which an open and secret war was waged. The then King of the Jews, Herod, was a protege of Rome, and the Parthians tried to persuade him to cooperate, but they failed. Then they began to look for a new king among the children born. This ancient custom, for example, has been preserved in Buddhism, and Herod, having learned about it from the Magi (Matthew 2:2), sent to kill the babies (this is mentioned only in Matthew), and the "holy family" fled to Egypt. But if we proceed only from the logic of religious thinking, then how to explain why they went to him at all!? It was necessary to go straight to the destination!

The Virgin Mary in due time gave birth to a baby, who was named Jesus, and to whom the magi (Matthew 2,1-12), or shepherds (Luke 2,8-18), that is, agents of the Parthians in disguise, came to worship. Maria is a name not only from Mariam ("lady of the sea" is an Aramaic word, compare with the name of Latin origin – Marina – sea), but also from Mary – bitter, beloved, stubborn – of Hebrew origin, so the mourners were called in the East. For example, three Marys, that is, mourners, mourned the death of Christ. There is a very unloved by the church and, therefore, a little-known version of the events described, set forth by classical historians Justin, Tertullian, Kelsus (Celsus), Origen, as well as in the Talmud, according to which Jesus of Nazareth was the illegitimate son of a peasant woman Mary from a fugitive Roman soldier Panther, with whom her husband (Joseph) after that, in accordance with Jewish laws, he divorced. A modern Russian scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences Boris Sapunov claims, based on the method of the theory of testimony, that Jesus Christ was a Greek by his father. He compiled a verbal portrait of Christ and sent it to various criminologists and anthropologists, their conclusion is the same – this man belongs to the Greek-Syrian type. There is a hint of this in the Gospel: when there is a completely principled dispute between Jesus and the Pharisees, who were distinguished by ostentatious piety, they, as if, by the way, declare to Jesus: "We were not born of fornication," after which, in the best traditions of kitchen squabbles, an instant transition to personality follows. He said to them, "Sons of the devil," they told him: "The devil is in you," with which they parted /John, 8, 41-52/. In principle, this is quite possible if we take into account some oddities: for example, Jesus did not allow the disciple to bury his father's body: "Leave the dead to bury their dead" /Matthew 8, 21-22/ (The Parthians had a religion of Zoroastrianism, where corpses were not buried in the ground, but placed in special towers of silence – dakmas, where they are eaten by birds, the cleaned bones are poured into a deep well in the center of the tower, so the "pure elements" – water, fire, earth, air, do not come into contact with the "unclean" corpse, similar elements of burials are found by archaeologists in the Sintashta-Arkaim culture in the Southern Urals). But what about the fifth commandment of Moses: "Honor your father and your mother…", which the Savior himself quotes a little later /Matthew, 19, 19/. Or "A live dog is better than a dead lion"? In the Avesta, the main book of Zoroastrianism, in the first book of the Vendidad, two chapters are devoted to a dog (a word of Iranian origin, in Slavic – dog) and various prescriptions on how to treat a dog, for killing a dog, a more severe punishment follows than for killing a person. The dog, apparently, was a totemic animal among the ancient Indo-Europeans.