Jesus in the Talmud AUTH-12625849 ISBN10: 0548708908

ISBN10: 0548708908

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Jesus in the Talmud AUTH-12625849 ISBN10: 0548708908Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus and they're not flattering. In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Sch fer examines how the rabbis of the Talmud read, understood, and used the New Testament Jesus narrative to assert, ultimately, Judaism's superiority over Christianity. The Talmudic stories make fun of Jesus' birth from a