What is Reddit's opinion of The Historical Jesus: An Essential Guide (Essential Guides)?

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You know I can't really link you to scholarly texts, right? If you want me to show you the primary source evidence itself, it's all documents you already know that have been linked elsewhere in this debate, or that aren't digitized. Biblical texts and apocrypha, pretty much.

One of the leading scholars of Biblical texts, apocrypha, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity is James Charlesworth, who has written a short historiographic introduction that I highly recommend. Here's an Amazon link, but to my knowledge the book itself hasn't been digitized:

http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Jesus-Essential-Guide-Abingdon/dp/0687021677/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267149900&sr=8-3

The reality is that the internet rarely reflects current scholarship in this field. I can grab some books from my shelf and my friends and quote them at you, but it might take some time and links aren't gonna happen.

>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 by the sixth century, some Byzantine artists started picturing Jesus with white skin, a beard, and hair parted down the middle. This image became the standard. 1

Also feel free to peruse The historical Jesus: an essential guide by James Charlesworth (mentioned above).

The idea of a white Jesus doesn't bother me outside of it simply being incorrect. As I said before, the colour of his skin was inconsequential, it was what he said and who he was that mattered.

Still no reason to lie about it.

Have a wonderful day.