Art and Antiquity: Super Size Me, Jesus……………..
“Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, and his brother, Craig Wansink, a biblical scholar at Virginia Wesleyan College, said their study of 52 depictions of Jesus' final Passover supper, created between 1000 and 2000, found entree portions increased by 70 percent during the millennium while bread portions increased by 23 percent, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The brothers said they used a computer program to compare the size of the depicted food to the sizes of the apostle's heads in the paintings. "I think people assume that increased serving sizes, or 'portion distortion,' is a recent phenomenon," Brian Wansink said. "But this research indicates that it's a general trend for at least the last millennium……..” It is the same phenomenon that has made Jesus’ hair blonder and his eyes bluer each year. His hair was not blond and his eyes were not blue. Jews in those days were as dark as their Arab cousins; they had not been through the European Diaspora yet.
People in odd places, from Ethiopia to Mississippi, think he looked like them. They also apparently think he ate like them: supersize.
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