Jesus in the Talmud

154 Notes to Chapter 214. “The Gospel of Mary (BG 8502,1),” trans. G. W. MacRae and R. McL.Wilson, ed. D. M. Parrott, in The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ed. JamesM. Robinson, San Francisco: Harper, 1990, p. 525 (BG 7, 10:1–3); King, Gospelof Mary of Magdala, p. 15 (6:1).15. “The Gospel of Philip (II,3),” introd. and trans. Wesley W. Isenberg, inNag Hammadi Library, p. 145 (II 59, 9).16. Ibid., p. 148 (II 63, 35).17. Cf. ibid., p. 145 (II 59, 1–4).18. See King, Gospel of Mary of Magdala, p. 146: “Kissing here apparentlyrefers to the intimate reception of spiritual teaching.”19. I am aware that the terms “gnosis” and “gnostic” have fallen out of favorin recent scholarship. When I use them, I do not intend to make a statementabout some kind of unified “gnostic religion” or “worldview” as opposed to other“religions” and “worldviews”; rather, I want to set up a certain (more or less welldefined) body of literature against other bodies of literature, such as “New Testament”or “rabbinic literature.”20. Here alluf is understood as “scholar,” hence “our scholars are wellloaded” (with your teachings).21. Derives mesubbalim from saval “suffer.”22. “Like Jesus the Nazarene” in Mss. Oxford Opp. Add. 23 (366) and ParisHeb. 671. In Mss. Munich 95 and Firenze II.1.7, after “in public” follows anerased passage that may have contained the words “like Jesus the Nazarene.” Inthe Soncino and Vilna printed editions, the text has been tampered with by thecensor (see the chart below, pp. 135f.).23. Maier’s treatment of this passage (Jesus von Nazareth, pp. 64ff.) is a goodexample of how his most detailed literary analysis misses the major point of thestory: he explains Jesus away as a late addition but does not ask himself why he isincluded/added here.24. m Sanh 10:2.25. This heading is missing in the important Kaufmann manuscript ofm Sanh 10:1 and was obviously later added.26. “In the Torah” is missing in many manuscripts, among them the Kaufmannmanuscript.27. The proverbial heretic.28. Noncanonical books.29. The tetragrammaton YHWH.