In his work, “the human form of Jesus
and his wonderful works”, Josephus
discussed the true colour of the messiah
being black. However, his texts were
passed through the hands of (white)
European Christian leaders who altered
them to hide the truth about the messiah
and who His people were. Fortunately,
however, Biblical scholar Robert Eisler in
a classic 1931 study of “Josephus’s
Testimony” was able to reconstruct the
unaltered testimony based on a newly-
discovered Old Russian translation that
preserved the original Greek text.
According to Eisler’s reconstruction, the
oldest non-Biblical description of Jesus
read as follows:
“At that time also there appeared a
certain man of magic power ... if it be
meet to call him a man, [whose name is
Jesus], whom [certain] Greeks call a son
of [a] God, but his disciples [call] the true
prophet ... he was a man of simple
appearance, mature age, black-skinned
(melagchrous), short growth, three cubits
tall, hunchbacked, prognathous (lit. ‘with
a long face’ [macroprosopos]), a long
nose, eyebrows meeting above the nose