• Descriptions of Christ in Revelation:
In Revelation chapter 1 there is a two-verse description of Christ, which in the King James Version reads: “14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.”
There is a common feature of Hebrew language, employed throughout the Bible, called parallelism. This describes a repetitive reference to or description of the same phenomenon in different ways. So where we read that “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow”, “white like wool” and “white as snow” are such a parallelism, by which we have a greater understanding of what is being described. So it cannot be taken to mean that His hair had the texture of wool, or otherwise it would also have to had the texture of snow, and in the sun He would have had no hair at all. Rather, it only means to describe the whiteness of His hair in different ways, and makes no comment on the texture.
We have this also in Isaiah chapter 1 where we read of the sins of Israel a promise which was fulfilled in Christ: “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Here we have another such parallelism, and scarlet is red like crimson, while something as white as snow would also appear “as wool”, meaning as white as wool. [1]
• Letters describing Christ
The letters describing Christ I do not give as much credit as the catacomb art or the mosaics of Galilee. That is because their provenance is impossible to prove, and they very likely date to the early centuries of Roman Christianity, perhaps the 4th or the 5th. They do, however, indicate how Christians of the time would have expected Christ to have looked.
• Other studies do say that Jesus is white:
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suggesting that the Israelites were a Northern European-descended population who migrated to Canaan before 1750 BC and subsequently admixed with local groups.” [2]“
…finding genetic plausibility via testing of proxies identified in previous research (non-Canaanite component of Lebanon_IA2) and haplotype necessity…” [3]