Tucan-Tiki opened this issue on Mar 12, 2012 · 46 posts
SamTherapy posted Mon, 12 March 2012 at 10:27 AM
Good character but I don't think the dreads would be accurate. Note, I said "think".
People of Arabic ethnicity tend to have straighter hair than Africans, which doesn't lend itself well to dreads without a lot of faffing around.
Short of anyone producing a photograph from the time we'll never know for sure. I like the idea of him being portrayed as a well built guy, though. Prophet of Allah, Son of God or plain Carpenter, chances are he was a strong guy, being used to manual labour and all that. I can't think there'd be any weedy Carpenters around at that time.
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.