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I may be able to help a little bit with the ‘long hair of Jesus
thing…

>Why are lots of pictures of Jesus portraying him with long hair?

I recently found out that our modern idea of ‘short hair’ and that of
Our Lord’s days are vastly different. Back then hair to the collar or
shoulder was not ‘long’, but in fact short, Mans hair was only
considered ‘long’ when it passed the centre of his back down to his
buttocks. On this information, Jesus did not have long hair at all…
In fact our modern haircuts of shaved heads and near shaved heads
would have been considered a shame in those days by the Christians, as
only the pagan religions had shaved heads in their priesthoods (eg:
Ancient Egypt and Babylon).