LEADER 03856nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910454349803321 005 20220210021620.0 010 $a1-282-12971-6 010 $a9786612129711 010 $a1-4008-2761-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827619 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756232 035 $a(EBL)445541 035 $a(OCoLC)368370339 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000459276 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11283246 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000459276 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10476476 035 $a(PQKB)10927396 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000185511 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11185355 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185511 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10226868 035 $a(PQKB)11545818 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445541 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36396 035 $a(DE-B1597)446533 035 $a(OCoLC)979578800 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827619 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445541 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284053 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212971 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756232 100 $a20060727d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJesus in the Talmud$b[electronic resource] /$fPeter Scha?fer 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (228 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12926-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-201) and index. 327 $aJesus' family -- The son/disciple who turned out badly -- The frivolous disciple -- The Torah teacher -- Healing in the name of Jesus -- Jesus' execution -- Jesus' disciples -- Jesus' punishment in hell -- Jesus in the Talmud. 330 $aScattered 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 Schäfer 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 virgin, fervently contest his claim to be the Messiah and Son of God, and maintain that he was rightfully executed as a blasphemer and idolater. They subvert the Christian idea of Jesus' resurrection and insist he got the punishment he deserved in hell--and that a similar fate awaits his followers. Schäfer contends that these stories betray a remarkable familiarity with the Gospels--especially Matthew and John--and represent a deliberate and sophisticated anti-Christian polemic that parodies the New Testament narratives. He carefully distinguishes between Babylonian and Palestinian sources, arguing that the rabbis' proud and self-confident countermessage to that of the evangelists was possible only in the unique historical setting of Persian Babylonia, in a Jewish community that lived in relative freedom. The same could not be said of Roman and Byzantine Palestine, where the Christians aggressively consolidated their political power and the Jews therefore suffered. A departure from past scholarship, which has played down the stories as unreliable distortions of the historical Jesus, Jesus in the Talmud posits a much more deliberate agenda behind these narratives. 606 $aRabbinical literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aRabbinical literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a296.1/206 700 $aScha?fer$b Peter$f1943-$01048388 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454349803321 996 $aJesus in the Talmud$92484879 997 $aUNINA