Jesus in the Talmud

148 Notes to Chapter 121. Jesus von Nazareth, p. 34; see also p. 32.22. Accordingly, I use “talmudic literature” synonymously with “rabbinic literature.”23. I strongly believe that any serious reevaluation of this question must startwith an evaluation of the full manuscript evidence and a literary analysis of thetext.24. See his results, Jesus von Nazareth, pp. 268ff. (especially p. 273).25. Methodologically, therefore, I am interested solely in what is called theWirkungsgeschichte (“reception history”) of the New Testament’s narratives, i.e.,how they are mirrored in the talmudic sources and how the rabbis might have readand understood them. In other words, I am neither concerned about the complexquestion of the historicity of the New Testament stories as such nor about the possiblecontribution of the rabbinic texts to the historical evaluation of the events describedin the New Testament (although I do agree that the latter is nil).Chapter 1Jesus’ Family1. b Shab 104b; b Sanh 67a.2. Lit. “who scratches (a mark) on his flesh/incised his flesh (ha-mesaret