Jesus in the Talmud

NotesIntroduction1. When using the term “New Testament” here and throughout the book, Ido not imply that the specific traditions discussed are characteristic of “the” NewTestament as a whole; rather, I am aware that the New Testament is a quite diversecollection of writings and I will be more specific when necessary andwhere applicable.2. Although, within the Talmud, there are obvious clusters in the tractate thatdeals with capital punishment, the tractate Sanhedrin.3. The history of the Toledot Yeshu and its relationship with the talmudic literatureneeds to be reevaluated; see the book by Krauss mentioned below. PrincetonUniversity’s library has acquired a collection of some of the relevant manuscript,and we are preparing a new edition with English translation and commentary.4. A very good summary of the state of the art is provided by Annette YoshikoReed and Adam H. Becker in their introduction to the Princeton conference volumeedited by them: The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquityand the Early Middle Ages, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 2003,pp. 1–33.5. See the survey in Johann Maier, Jesus von Nazareth in der talmudischenÜberlieferung, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978, pp. 18–41.6. The University of Altdorf (a German city not far from Nuremberg) wasfounded in 1623 and became one of the most famous European universities inthe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was closed in 1809; the Wagenseilcollection of Hebrew writings is now located at the Friedrich-Alexander Universityof Erlangen-Nuremberg (founded 1743).7. A similar work, written in German, is Johann Schmid’s Feuriger Drachen-Gifft und wütiger Ottern-Gall, Augsburg, 1683.8. Submitted in two parts: Jesus in Talmude, Sive Dissertatio PhilologicaPrior/Posterior, De iis locis, in quibus per Talmudicas Pandectas Jesu cujusdam men-