Jesus in the Talmud

Notes to Chapter 7 1712. Mt. 10:1–4; Mk. 3:14–19; Lk. 6:12–16.3. Mt. 28:16–20; Mk. 16:14–17 (the longer ending); Lk. 24:36–50; John20:19–31; 21.4. b Sanh 43a–b.5. The full name in Mss. Yad ha-Rav Herzog 1, Firenze II.1.8–9, and KarlsruheReuchlin 2; Ms. Munich has the name and much of the text erased (see thechart below, pp. 140f. and the frontispiece).6. Or: in secret; in a mysterious way.7. The list of the names is in Hebrew, whereas the following interpretationsare in Aramaic.8. Maier, Jesus von Nazareth, pp. 232f., is very concerned about discreditingthe “authenticity” of the text.9. Indeed, the Gospel of John starts with five disciples that were first chosen(John 1: 37–51: two disciples of John who followed Jesus, one of them Andrew;Simon Peter; Philip; and Nathanael).10. m Avot 2:8.11. The historicity of which is even maintained by Klausner, Jesus ofNazareth, pp. 29f., who proposes the following identifications:Mattai = Matthew; Naqqai = Luke; Netzer = either a pun on notzrim (“Christians”)or a corruption of Andrai = Andrew; Buni = Nicodemus or a corruption ofYuhanni/Yuani = John; Todah = Thaddaeus.12. Mt. 9:9, 10:3.13. That the verb in the original text is in the first-person singular and in the interpretationin the third-person singular does not bother the author of the passage.14. The Hebrew word naqi can also be read as “Naqqai.”15. Reading yehareg instead of yaharog.16. The Hebrew is difficult here; probably also “crushing my bones” (so theJPS translation).17. Mt. 27:39–44; Mk. 15:29–32; Lk. 23:35–37.18. A quotation from another Psalm (Ps. 22:1): Mt. 27:46; Mk. 15:34.19. According to Mt. 27:19, Pilate’s wife tells him: “Have nothing to do withthat innocent (tō dikaiō) man, for today I have suffered a great deal because of adream about him!” The Greek word used for “innocent” is actually dikaios—“righteous,” the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew tzaddiq, the word used togetherwith naqi (“innocent”) in Ex. 23:7.20. John 20:34: “But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and atonce there came out blood and water.”