The Making of the Mishnah and the Talmud
... rabbinic authorities who assembled at Yavneh after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 c.e. to solidify their authority by claiming divine origin for their own traditions. Actually, such ideas were developing naturally as the various approaches to Judaism in the Second Temple period str ...
... rabbinic authorities who assembled at Yavneh after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 c.e. to solidify their authority by claiming divine origin for their own traditions. Actually, such ideas were developing naturally as the various approaches to Judaism in the Second Temple period str ...
A RABBI LOOKS AT JESUS
... The next paragraph (vv. 43-47) builds on "loving your enemy". Here, too, statements expressing similar ideas can be found in the writings of the rabbis. For example, "if anyone seeks to do evil unto you, do you in well-doing pray for him" (Testament of Joseph XVIII.2; cf. Mt. 5:44). While it is true ...
... The next paragraph (vv. 43-47) builds on "loving your enemy". Here, too, statements expressing similar ideas can be found in the writings of the rabbis. For example, "if anyone seeks to do evil unto you, do you in well-doing pray for him" (Testament of Joseph XVIII.2; cf. Mt. 5:44). While it is true ...
Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia - Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley.
... in part to the story of the alleged School of the Persians at Edessa as the origin for the School of Nisibis.25 The new institution and the new form of study as well as the new text all hang together on this theory. The hypothesization of the crucial role of the late redactors, these anonymous “Stam ...
... in part to the story of the alleged School of the Persians at Edessa as the origin for the School of Nisibis.25 The new institution and the new form of study as well as the new text all hang together on this theory. The hypothesization of the crucial role of the late redactors, these anonymous “Stam ...
Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-first Century?
... While Talmud study held pride of place in most Jewish communities in previous centuries by sheer force of tradition, this book seeks out the reasons for this privileged position. After all, Talmud study requires a tremendous investment of time and effort, and the payoff from struggling through its mea ...
... While Talmud study held pride of place in most Jewish communities in previous centuries by sheer force of tradition, this book seeks out the reasons for this privileged position. After all, Talmud study requires a tremendous investment of time and effort, and the payoff from struggling through its mea ...
The Religions Book
... but some Jews also believe that Moses received additional teachings (transmitted verbally to the community’s leaders, and then from generation to generation), which became known as the Oral Law. This Oral Law included additional details about, and interpretations of, the biblical laws. From the 2nd ...
... but some Jews also believe that Moses received additional teachings (transmitted verbally to the community’s leaders, and then from generation to generation), which became known as the Oral Law. This Oral Law included additional details about, and interpretations of, the biblical laws. From the 2nd ...
The Talmud and Its Authors PDF
... the time it was compiled until modern times and still regarded so by religious Jews. 1 In the words of Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, it is “the foundation-document of Judaism” 2 Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds There are two versions of the Talmud. The Anti-Defamation League states, “There are two edit ...
... the time it was compiled until modern times and still regarded so by religious Jews. 1 In the words of Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, it is “the foundation-document of Judaism” 2 Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds There are two versions of the Talmud. The Anti-Defamation League states, “There are two edit ...
The Talmud and Its Authors DOC
... the time it was compiled until modern times and still regarded so by religious Jews. 1 In the words of Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, it is “the foundation-document of Judaism” 2 Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds There are two versions of the Talmud. The Anti-Defamation League states, “There are two edit ...
... the time it was compiled until modern times and still regarded so by religious Jews. 1 In the words of Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, it is “the foundation-document of Judaism” 2 Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds There are two versions of the Talmud. The Anti-Defamation League states, “There are two edit ...
Origins of Christianity
... lived about 300 years apart and neither lived at the time of Jesus. The first Yeshu lived at the time when Joshua Ben Perahjah led the Sanhedrin (circa 150 BCE) and, therefore, predated Jesus according to Christian chronology by at least 150 years. The second Yeshu lived sometime during the 2nd cen ...
... lived about 300 years apart and neither lived at the time of Jesus. The first Yeshu lived at the time when Joshua Ben Perahjah led the Sanhedrin (circa 150 BCE) and, therefore, predated Jesus according to Christian chronology by at least 150 years. The second Yeshu lived sometime during the 2nd cen ...
Yeshu
Yeshu (ישו in the Hebrew alphabet) is the name of an individual or individuals mentioned in Rabbinic literature. Modern scholarship generally considers the name Yeshu in the Talmud to be a reference to Jesus in the Talmud. The name Yeshu is also used in other sources before and after the completion of the Babylonian Talmud.According to the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 43a) the name is generally believed to be an acronym for י = Yimaḥ ש = Shĕmo ו = Wezikhro = meaning, May his name and memory be stricken out. The oldest works in which references to Yeshu occur are the Tosefta and the Talmud, although some scholars consider the references to Yeshu to be post-Talmudic additions.During the Middle Ages, Ashkenazic Jewish authorities were forced to interpret these passages in relation to the Christian beliefs about Jesus of Nazareth. As historian David Berger observed,Whatever one thinks of the number of Jesuses in antiquity, no one can question the multiplicity of Jesuses in Medieval Jewish polemic. Many Jews with no interest at all in history were forced to confront a historical/biographical question that bedevils historians to this day.In 1240 Nicholas Donin, with the support of Pope Gregory IX, referred to Yeshu narratives to support his accusation that the Jewish community had attacked the Virginity of Mary and the divinity of Jesus. In the Disputation of Paris, Yechiel of Paris conceded that one of the Yeshu stories in the Talmud referred to Jesus of Nazareth, but that the other passages referred to other people. In 1372, John of Valladolid, with the support of the Archbishop of Toledo, made a similar accusation against the Jewish community; Moses ha-Kohen de Tordesillas argued that the Yeshu narratives referred to different people and could not have referred to Jesus of Nazareth. Asher ben Jehiel also asserted that the Yeshu of the Talmud is unrelated to the Christian Jesus.There are some modern scholars who understand these passages to be references to Christianity and the Christian figure of Jesus, and others who see references to Jesus only in later rabbinic literature. Johann Maier argued that neither the Mishnah nor the two Talmuds refer to Jesus.