Jesus in the Talmud

Notes to Chapter 6 169our understanding of the historical event, this is not my concern here: I am concernedwith the (possible) talmudic reading of the Gospels, not with the historicalreality. Also, Winter’s brief analysis of our talmudic Baraita (p. 144) is solelyinterested in the narrowly defined question of its historicity and, of course, provesits “unhistorical character.”31. m Sanh 6:4 and 7:4.32. Mt. 26:62–65; Mk. 14:61–64; Lk. 22:66–71; John 19:7.33. Mt. 27:17, 22, 29, 37, 39–43; Mk. 15:2, 12, 18, 26, 32; Lk. 23:2–5, 35, 37,39; John 18:33, 37; 19:3, 12, 14f., 19, 21.34. Mt. 26:61; Mk. 14:58.35. Mt. 12:23f. (Mk. 3:22; Lk. 11:15).36. See above, p. 19.37. Maier, Jesus von Nazareth, p. 227. On this, see the critique by Horbury,Jews and Christians, p. 104.38. m Sanh 4 and 5. To avoid a misunderstanding: I am not suggesting here(and with similar phrases) that the Gospels are based on the Mishna. Rather, Iam arguing that the Halakha presupposed here in the Gospels is similar to theHalakha (later) codified in the Mishna.39. Mt. 26:59; Mk. 14:55.40. Explicitly only in Mark.41. The concurrent testimony only in Matthew (26:60); Mark insists that evenhere the two witnesses did not agree on the circumstances of the crime (14:59).42. “I am” (Mk. 14:62).43. “You have said so” (Mt. 26:64).44. Mt. 26:65f.; Mk. 14:63f.45. This has been suggested to me by my graduate student Moulie Vidas,when we were reading the texts together in a private reading course.46. (1) Mt. 16:21; Mk. 8:31; Lk. 9:22; (2) Mt. 17:22f.; Mk. 9:30f.; Lk. 9:44;(3) Mt. 20:17–19; Mk. 10:32–34; Lk. 18:31–33.47. Mk. 10:32–34.48. See, e.g., Martin Hengel, Crucifixion in the Ancient World and the Follyof the Message of the Cross, London: SCM, and Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977,especially pp. 33ff.49. Maier, Jesus von Nazareth, pp. 227f.50. t Sanh 9:7; see also Sifre Deuteronomy, 221 (ed. Finkelstein, p. 254),where the death penalty of being hanged alive “as is done by the [non-Jewish]government” is explicitly mentioned. On the crucifixion in Jewish sources, see