בְנֵי־לֹ֣וט
MATTHEW SCHULTZ: In Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei, the theoretical becomes actual.God said, "Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell within them."Read it closely. It is not written, "that I may dwell within it," the tabernacle, but rather "within them," the people of Israel
Love Israeli standup because a set can start off with jokes like “instead of having Filipinos come to Israel to take care of old people just send the old people to the Philippines!” and you’re at “!שמאלנים לעזה” before the night is done— Rebecca Pierce (@aptly_engineerd) May 29, 2018
— Madonna (@Madonna) May 18, 2018
Little Brown Brother BY NICK CARBÓ
I've always wanted to play the part
of that puckish pubescent Filipino boy
in those John Wayne Pacific-War movies.
Pepe, Jose, or Juanito would be smiling,
bare-chested and eager to please
for most of the steamy jungle scenes.
I'd be the one who would cross
the Japanese lines and ask for tanks,
air support, or more men. I'd miraculously
make it back to the town where John Wayne
is holding his position against the enemy
with his Thompson machine-gun. As a reward,
he'd rub that big white hand on my head
and he'd promise to let me clean
his Tommy gun by the end of the night. But
then, a Betty Grable look-a-like love
interest would divert him by sobbing
into his shoulder, saying how awfully scared
she is about what the "Japs" would do
to her if she were captured. In one swift
motion, John Wayne would sweep her off
her feet to calm her fears inside his private quarters.
Because of my Hollywood ability
to be anywhere, I'd be under the bed
watching the woman roll down her stockings
as my American hero unbuckles his belt
I'd feel the bottom of the bed bounce off my chest
as small-arms fire explodes outside the walls.
Clifford Fabro Rivera: Is Jesus Jewish?Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera: He's Filipino.🤭
There is no doubt that the historical Jesus was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. #Views https://t.co/lyTp2o6VDf— Rappler (@rapplerdotcom) April 15, 2019
I’m that relative that shows up to dinner this Noche Buena just to remind you that Jesus Christ was brown and a refugee. pic.twitter.com/wY7sNvdcWf— Gabriela Alemán (@smugmorenita) December 25, 2018
Jesus was a brown man...but I’m not convinced Judas wasn’t white.— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) October 13, 2018
SHAUN KING: Jesus was not white.
TIMOTHY D PADGETT: Jesus wasn't white.
From the prophecies of Isaiah, written some 700 years before Christ, we can surmise that there was nothing extraordinary in His appearance, nothing to make Him stand out from the general population of the eastern Mediterranean world. For comparison take the mummy portraits made during the long centuries of Roman domination of Egypt, or images from a Synagogue in Syria. Dark hair, dark eyes, "olive" skin, and, by our standards, rather short.
KAREN TEEL: the historical person of Jesus was not White, historically or analogically;
JOHN PAVLOVITZ: Jesus was born in the Middle East.He didn't speak English.He wasn't white.He wasn't Evangelical.He wasn't a Republican.He wasn't American.
MATT CHANDLER: We know that Jesus is not a white guy.
JASON CHESNUT: Jesus wasn't white. We know this. I regularly visit a vast diversity of churches, and I always pay attention how Jesus is portrayed. It matters.
HILLCITYAPOLOGETICS: Jesus was neither black or white.
WAYNE BLANK: Was Christ white or black? Answer - neither.
CHASE A. THOMPSON: Was Jesus White?No.
What…just a simple one word answer isn't good enough for you? The truth of it is that Jesus wasn't exactly white, nor was He precisely black either. He was, most likely, in the middle, and that's not just me hedging bets.
SETH: as a man, I put away childish things, and I know that just as Jesus wasn't white, [H]e wasn't black either.
SHOSHANNA KEATS JASKOLL: Jesus wasn't black.
Jesus wasn't white.
Jesus wasn't a Palestinian.
Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jew.
Can you please stop rewriting history to fit your own special personal brand of social justice?
Ed Gaskin: The iconic images on the walls of ancient churches in Israel show not a Jesus who is Black like an African, nor one who looks like a white person with a tan, but one who is brown or bronze. To me, these paintings reflect the image of Jesus found in the Book of Revelation, which describes him as having "feet like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace." The earliest Christian artists painted Jesus as brown or bronze. That's the Jesus I saw when I visited Israel.
BRANDY WILLIAMS: Jesus Christ was a brown-skinned Nazarene Man. Therefore He's dark, brown-skinned. He's not white. He's not black. He's brown.
HARI KONDABOLU: Jesus was a brown man...but I'm not convinced Judas wasn't white.
Hans Zatzka: Jesus, the man who was executed by the Roman State in the first century CE, was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew.
CHARLOTTE CLYMER: Jesus Christ was a Brown-skinned, socialist, Jewish refugee.
PAMPLEMOUSS: As an agnostic Jew, I always describe Jesus as a radical brown socialist Jew who didn't put up with slut~shaming or anti~immigration bull.
JOSH BUCK: And so the King of kings and the Lord of lords was a brown-skinned Messiah that was from the Middle East and took on this Middle Eastern culture.
JARVIS J. WILLIAMS: Christmas reminds us of the day when God’s eternal Son took on flesh and became Jesus, the brown skin Jewish man.
JENNIFER SANDERS: If we are going to be literal about this, Jesus was brown.
MIHEE KIM~KORT: Is our message of love truly rooted in Jesus, the Christ? Not a sanitized or domesticated Jesus, but rather, the brown-skinned carpenter from Galilee.
TRAVIS EADES: Jesus was a brown skinned, Middle Eastern, poor, Jewish refugee.
SHEKHIYNAH LARKS: Almost every Israeli with whom I connected with was some shade of brown.
CHANSHI CHIBWE: What we do know is Jesus was Jewish; an oppressed minority in the Roman Empire. Jesus was physically unremarkable. Jesus was poor. Jesus likely had tan to bronze skin.
JOAN E. TAYLOR: In terms of a colour palette then, think dark-brown to black hair, deep brown eyes, olive-brown skin. Jesus would have been a man of Middle Eastern appearance. In terms of height, an average man of this time stood 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) tall.
SUNREPORTER: As a Middle Eastern Jew, most experts today believe that Jesus would have had what is often called olive, or moderately brown, skin.
COMPELLING TRUTH: A descendant of Jews, Jesus would have certainly been born with a Jewish complexion, typically consisting of an olive, light brown skin tone.
CHRISTENA CLEVELAND: Jesus of Nazareth likely had a darker complexion than we imagine, not unlike the olive skin common among Middle Easterners today. Princeton biblical scholar James Charlesworth goes so far as to say Jesus was "most likely dark brown and sun-tanned." The earliest depictions of an adult Jesus showed him with an "Oriental cast" and a brown complexion.
But first, those who still perceive a white Christ must ask whether they can and will worship a dark~skinned Jesus.
ROBYN J. WHITAKER: I can't help but wonder, what would our church and society look like if we just remembered that Jesus was brown? If we were confronted with the reality that the body hung on the cross was a brown body: one broken, tortured, and publicly executed by an oppressive regime.
WILLIAM FRANKLIN GRAHAM JUNIOR: Now, Jesus was a Man. He was Human. He was not a white man. He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe and He probably had a brown skin,,, Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all People. He belongs to the whole world. His Gospel is for everyone, whoever you are, the Scriptures say.
JOAN E. TAYLOR: In my twenties, I travelled to Israel-Palestine, and became fascinated by archaeological discoveries of ancient pieces of cloth,,,I was also keenly aware that Jesus would have looked like the people I met in this part of the world: [H]e would have looked like a Palestinian or Sephardi Jew, with brown skin and black hair.
JONATHAN MERRITT: The scholarly consensus is actually that Jesus was, like most first-century Jews, probably a dark-skinned man.
SUSAN CAMPBELL: For -- well -- ever, historians, theologians and others have said it is impossible that Jesus was a Nordic man. The historical Jesus most likely was far darker than the European figure with whom many of us are most familiar.
ROB SHIFLET: The truth is, Jesus' skin color was probably far darker than the average American's. He was a Jew. His Middle Eastern heritage was starkly obvious when he stood before Pilate, a pale Roman.
VIACRUCIS: Jesus was neither black (Sub-Saharan African) or white (Northern European). Jesus would have, as others mentioned, looked like any other Palestinian Jew, which we could pretty accurately describe as being "brown". I think we can also reasonably say He would likely have been on the darker, rather than lighter side, seeing as He grew up in the household of Joseph a carpenter by trade, and spent much of His time outside under the hot Judean sun.
But insofar as if we are going to ascribe a general skin tone to Jesus, brown would be the most accurate. He wouldn't have been black, and He even more certainly wouldn't have been white.
CHRISTOPHER JULIUS ROCK: it's pretty safe to say Jesus was brown.
Lisa Sharon Harper: Until western missionaries have done their homework—until they have come to the place where they bow to Brown Jesus—until their gospel causes Brown Mary to jump and shout and break into song—they have no right to share Jesus with anyone.
KALEE VANDEGRIFT: Did You Know Jesus Is Brown?
ABAGOND: In short, Jesus was Awkwardly Brown. Awkward, that is, for white racists.
STEPHEN D MORRISON: Sorry Charlie, but Jesus wasn’t a white guy from Utah. He wasn’t an American individualist. He came from the middle eastern country of Israel, as a Jew. He most likely had brown skin, spoke Aramaic, and if you saw Him in the airport, you might take a second look.
CHAUNCEY DEVEGA: The historical figure known as Jesus of Nazareth was not white. He was not European. Based on the scholarly consensus, the historical Jesus would be a Middle Eastern Jew of medium, if not dark, complexion.
Would it really be that hard for some white Christians [and others] to kneel before a black or brown Jesus Christ?
MATT O'REILLY: Much, much, much more important is the question of Jesus' ethnicity. Let me say emphatically that if there is one thing of which we can be absolutely certain, it is that Jesus of Nazareth—who ministered by the waters of the Sea of Galilee and traveled around Judea proclaiming the inauguration of the reign of God—was not white. He was a Semite, a Jew, a native of the Middle East.
We need to reckon with the reality that right now, at this very moment, the one who is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty and who reigns over heaven and earth has Jewish skin, a Jewish body, and a Jewish face.
REBECCA HEISS: I think it’s time we "Make Jesus Brown Again."
PARKER J. PALMER: After all, the baby Jesus was brown, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and given what’s now a predominantly Mexican name.
ROBERT P. JONES: we have a responsibility to build a theology where all of humanity is assumed in the body of Jesus.
YOUTH SPECIALTIES: When I think of the true passion of Jesus, I think of a multiethnic Jesus on the cross. I think of the Son of God with African, Asian, Jewish, and even European blood
EFREM SMITH: Jesus walked the earth as a multi-ethnic human being, not as Black or White.
MATTHEW RALEY: Jesus was multi-ethnic.
STEVE TAMAYO: Paul believed that the body of Christ was a multiethnic bodyJOSHUA CANADA: Jesus would have looked like a multi-ethnic Jew. He would have most likely had Jewish traits, a prominent nose and jaw, and dark hair, but [H]e would have most likely also had traits and blood from various ethnic and cultural lines [look at the inclusion of Ruth [a Moabite], Rahab [a Canaanite], and others in Jesus' genealogy]. Additionally, as the son of a carpenter and a young man who trained in carpentry, we can deduce that Jesus was probably tanned by the sun and at least in decent shape, but not necessarily "cut" or especially athletic. He was also fairly short [compared to us] and overall probably looked pretty run of the mill.
LARRY CHESTNUT: There is that difficulty in recognizing that He was, if you will, a Man of Color.
ROBERT R.A. TURNER: Jesus was a man of color.
PETER LEVINE: I think Jesus would pretty clearly be a person of color.
KEITH GILES: Well, I’m not making it about race. I’m actually trying to speak to those who do make it about race, to help them see that Jesus is brown, and every major person of faith in the Bible is brown, and that we need to learn to love all the colors of the rainbow [remember that song we learned in Sunday School?].
JAMES EUGENE CARREY: You can find every race in the face of Jesus.
DONNA SCHAPER: Jesus comes from an immigrant background. He comes from many, not from one. He is of mixed race. He is also understood as a person with a maternal as well as paternal lineage.
DANIEL: Our Savior was a mestizo. He was the mixed-race Savior of the world.
VICTORIA EMILY JONES: Jesus was born in Asia. He was Asian.
KRISTIE CHRISTIE: The truth is, Jesus was a brown man who started a movement to unite people of all races, creeds, socio economic status, and gender.
DAVID KATZ: the actual Messiah will inherit all paths of seed, ending up as an expression in Levy, under the guard of Moses
JAKE ALLSTAEDT: And on that day~the day of the resurrection of all flesh~we will look a whole lot like Jesus.
Moshe Heinemann: A matzah that is completely white on both sides should not be used, since it may not have been thoroughly baked. Matzah meal should be slightly brown in color, which indicates a better bake on the matzos that were used for the matzah meal.
Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.
