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Notes to Chapter 9 18158. As has been argued, quite stereotypically, again by Maier (Jesus vonNazareth, pp. 244–247).59. Ibid., p. 246.60. Ibid., p. 245.61. Lucian, Death of Peregrinus, 13 (Selected Satires of Lucian, ed. and trans.Lionel Casson, New York and London: Norton, 1962, p. 369).62. See The Dead Comes to Life, 19 (Lucian, vol. 3, trans. A. M. Harmon,Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1921; reprint, 2004,pp. 30f.); The Double Indictment, 25 (ibid., pp. 134f.), 27 (pp. 136f.).63. Tertullian, De spectaculis, 30 (Tertullian Apology—De spectaculis, transl.Glover, pp. 298f.). On this passage, see Horbury, Jews and Christians, pp. 176–179.64. Son of a carpenter: Mt. 13:55; Mk. 6:3; son of a prostitute: see above, ch.1; Sabbath breaker: Mt. 12:1–14; Mk. 2:23–3:6; Lk. 6:1–11; demon-possessed:Mt. 9:34, 10:25, 12:24; Mk. 3:22; Lk. 11:14–23; John 8:48 (demon-possessedSamaritan), 10:20; purchased from Judas: Mt. 26:14f.; Mk. 14:10f.; Lk. 22:3–6;struck with reed and fist: Mt. 27:30; Mk. 15:19; John 19:3; spat upon: Mt. 27:30;Mk. 15:19; given gall and vinegar to drink: Mt. 27:34; Mk. 15:23; John 19:29(vinegar only in John); secretly stolen away by his disciples: Mt. 27:64; 28:12–15;the gardener: John 20:15 (only in John).65. Acts 8:9–13 (see above, p. 105); see also John 8:48.66. This motif comes back forcefully in Toledot Yeshu, as does the motif of Jesus’birth from a whore.67. Boyarin, Dying for God, p. 27.68. Richard Kalmin (“Christians and Heretics,” pp. 160ff.) also emphasizesthe difference between the earlier (Palestinian) and later (mainly Babylonian,but also some Palestinian) sources. In addition to the possibility of different historicalattitudes (earlier sources are receptive to Christianity’s attractiveness, latersources are much more critical) he brings into play changing rabbinic rhetoricalattitudes (p. 163) and, in particular, a “tendency of the Babylonian Talmud to includematerial excluded from Palestinian compilations” (p. 167). This thought isdeveloped much further in his new book, Jewish Babylonia: Between Persia andRoman Palestine (in press).69. The major proponent is Michael Avi-Yonah, The Jews of Palestine: A PoliticalHistory from the Bar Kokhba War to the Arab Conquest, New York:Schocken, 1976, pp. 158ff., 208ff.