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  Bern wrote: "the face appears Western because it is an imprint and "negative".
  
  Not sure I go along with that. Whether the image is positive or negative has no bearing on the apparent features in the face appearing to be from a western culture rather than middle-eastern. Nearly all iconography concerning Jesus depicts him as being a white European which, in my opinion, doesn't seem at all likely - so I go along with Ross on that. Jesus may even have been black, but certainly non-white.
  
  We should also remember that the Bible isn't an historical document as such but a collection of narratives written over time and, in some cases, badly translated from poorly transcribed copies of copies of copies. The Old Testament particularly contains stories that were originally handed down by word of mouth before being written down so any historical "facts" would undoubtedly have become distorted.

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