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The account portrays Jesus as an impostor. The Talmud, and other talmudic texts, contain several references to the "son of Pandera". A few of the references name Jesus ("Yeshu") as the "son of Pandera": these connections are found in the Tosefta, the Qohelet Rabbah, and the Jerusalem Talmud, but not in the Babylonian Talmud. [102]
The Babylonian Talmud has Gemara—rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah—on thirty-seven masekhtot. The Jerusalem Talmud (Yerushalmi) has Gemara on thirty-nine masekhtot . [ 1 ] The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law ( halakha ) and Jewish theology.
The Babylonian Talmud (200–500 CE), tractate Sanhedrin, contains a long discussion of the events leading to the coming of the Messiah. [ note 1 ] Throughout their history Jews have compared these passages (and others) to contemporary events in search of signs of the Messiah's imminent arrival, continuing into present times.
From the 9th through the 20th centuries, the Toledot Yeshu has inflamed Christian hostility towards Jews. [6] [35]In 1405, the Toledot was banned by Church authorities. [36] A book under this title was strongly condemned by Francesc Eiximenis (d. 1409) in his Vita Christi, [37] but in 1614 it was largely reprinted by a Jewish convert to Christianity, Samuel Friedrich Brenz, in Nuremberg, as ...
Both the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud have been transmitted in written form to the present day, although the more extensive Babylonian Talmud is widely considered to be more authoritative. [8] The Talmud's discussions follow the order of the Mishnah, although not all tractates are discussed.
After Jesus' ascension, the disciples withdrew to an upper room (Acts 1:10–14) [13] (traditionally the Cenacle) in Jerusalem. [14] The disciples remained in and about Jerusalem and proclaimed that Jesus was the promised Messiah. In the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 43a), "Mattai" is one of five disciples of "Jeshu". [15]
The Jerusalem Talmud is very similar to the Babylonian Talmud minus Stammaitic activity (Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.), entry "Jerusalem Talmud"). Shamma Y. Friedman's Talmud Aruch on the sixth chapter of Bava Metzia (1996) is the first example of a complete analysis of a Talmudic text using this method.
The first page of the Vilna Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, folio 2a. Early printing of Tractate Sanhedrin , originally belonging to a synagogue in Bobruisk The Vilna Edition of the Talmud , printed in Vilna (now Vilnius ), Lithuania , is by far the most common printed edition of the Talmud still in use today as the basic ...