Jesus in the Talmud

172 Notes to Chapter 821. “Their fathers” in the Hebrew text, but the singular is much more likelyhere (see also the ancient translations).22. Mt. 28:18–20; Mk. 16:15f.23. Mk. 1:10f.; Mt. 3:16f.; Lk. 3:21f.24. Mt. 16:5; Mk. 9:7; Lk. 9:35.25. In Greek: apo tou xylou, literally “from the wood.”26. Acts 13:28–30.27. Hebr. 1:5; cf. also 5:5.28. Col. 1:15f.; see also Hebr. 1:6.29. Col. 1:18.30. 1 Cor. 15:20–22; see also Rom. 8:29.31. Rom. 9:8.32. Rom. 9:25.33. John 1:29; cf. also 1 Cor. 5:7; Rev. 5:6, 9, 12; 13:8.34. Eph. 5:2.35. Rom. 3:25; cf. also 1 John 2:12.36. Hebr. 9:14.37. Hebr. 9:25f.Chapter 8Jesus’ Punishment in Hell1. Lk. 24:51: “While he blessed them, he parted from them” (some manuscriptsadd “and was carried up into heaven”).2. Could this be the source of the forty days the herald announces Jesus’forthcoming death in the Talmud (see above)?3. Two angels.4. Acts 1:9–11.5. b Git 55b–56a. On this cycle of stories and its anti-Christian implicationssee Israel J. Yuval, “Two Nations in Your Womb”: Perceptions of Jews and Christians,Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2000, pp. 65–71 (in Hebrew).6. According to Josephus (Bell. 2, 409f.), the order issued by the Temple captainEleazar, the son of the High Priest Ananias, to suspend the daily sacrifice forthe emperor was indeed the decisive act of rebellion that made the war withRome inevitable. The rabbinic literature, in its characteristic way, transfers theevents from the level of the priests to the rabbis.