>> i would assume that she looked like other middle eastern women, which would have been dark haired and dark skinned. and she probably would have been about the same height as women of her time. and what we know about that is, that's probably five feet -- 5'1", 5'2", somewhere in there. >> and scholars say her name wasn't mary, but mariam, in the aramaic language she spoke in a small town called nazareth. it was a rural existence, governed by the rituals of jewish life, and by roman soldiers in the nearby city of sepphoris, a frequent target of jewish rebels. according to journalist lesley hazelton, author of "mary: a flesh and blood biography of the virgin mother," mary was not just an observer, but directly involved in the politics of her time. >> there's no doubt in my mind that she -- because she knew the ins and outs and all the side roads of the hills, where the