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Why is Jesus Christ usually portrayed as having long hair and being kind of effeminate and emaciated-looking? Is it accurate that a typical Jew of the 1st Century, who worked as a carpenter in the Levant region would look like that?

by /u/Jerjacques in /r/AskHistorians

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