Indeed, you can trace the history of Greeks and Roman eastward expansion by “blue eyes” and light skin genes found as far east as Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Greeks, the Romans, you name it, made their way through the land of Jesus. The Babylonian Empire bordered the Black Sea. Turkey borders the Black Sea, –also known as the Hittite Empire in the Bible. According to genetic researchers, the gene mutation for blue-eyes appeared in the human genome sometimes between 40 B.C in the region of the Black Sea. Trade, migration, and invading armies had left their genetic imprint all over the region. But being racially sensitive also requires us to be informed about race and genetics, and to deal with our misconceptions.)įact is, by the time of Jesus, Israel had truly been the “crossroads of the world”. (I recognize that this is an uncomfortable idea for those of us raised to be racially sensitive. And people in the Bible had light skin and dark skin, red hair, black, brown, and yes, even a few were blond. But based on history, ancient art, and genetic studies, we can safely say, YES, some biblical persons likely had blue eyes and green eyes, as well as brown and hazel and grey. The Bible is largely silent on the subject of eye color and skin color.
He was likely not any more “average” Middle Eastern-looking than YOU probably look like the “average American” com-posited by Time magazine a few years ago. Israel in the time of Jesus was as diverse a cultural/genetic-crossroads as America is today. What is Jesus “supposed” to look like?Ī few years ago, an anthropologist came up with this “likely depiction” seen here on the right.
At the very end of the song, the Spanish singing references the much happier time he spent in Cuba and how sad it is that he cannot go back because he has no family there.The germ of this article started years ago when a teacher complained about a video depicting a “ white-looking Jesus with blue eyes“.
In the second song, he pleads with her for one more chance, asker her, "What have you go to lose?" In the third song, Stills recalls how happy he was with her and asks what he can do to win her back. In the first song, Stills recalls happier times that the couple had shared and realizes that their relationship has changed. When Stills was writing this song, he was well aware that his relationship with Collins was about to end, yet he wrote this song to try and win her back. A suite is a series of musical compositions that are all related by being in the same key. Judy Collins was known for her striking blue eyes, Stills wrote the song as a suite to play on the word `sweet'. The song is about Stephen Stills' then girlfriend, Judy Collins. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes appeared on Crosby, Stills, and Nash's self-titled album in 1969.
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