Jesus in the Talmud

Appendix: Bavli Manuscripts and CensorshipWe are still far away from a complete history of the textual transmission ofthe Babylonian Talmud, but considerable progress has been made recently,thanks to the new technology of collecting huge amounts of dataand putting them electronically at the research community’s disposal.Most notable in this regard are the Saul Lieberman Institute for TalmudicResearch at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New Yorkthat provides scholars with a computerized databank (the Sol and EvelynHenkind Talmud Text Data Bank) of talmudic manuscripts 1 and the onlinedatabank of talmudic manuscripts maintained, together with the HebrewUniversity’s Department of Talmud, by the Jewish National andUniversity Library in Jerusalem (the David and Fela Shapell Family DigitizationProject). 2 I have been able to utilize the following Bavli manuscriptsand printed editions (arranged according to the presumed date ofthe respective manuscripts): 3Firenze II-I-7-9: Ashkenazi, 1177Oxford Heb. d. 20 (Neubauer-Cowley 2675): Sephardic, Geniza,13th century(?)Karlsruhe Reuchlin 2: square Ashkenazi, 13th centuryNew York JTS Rab. 15: Sephardic, 1291Vatican ebr. 487/9: square Ashkenazi, 13th century(?)Vatican ebr. 108: Sephardic, 13th–14th centuryMunich Cod. Hebr. 95: Ashkenazi, 1342 4Vatican ebr. 110: square Ashkenazi, 1380