Jesus in the Talmud

18 Chapter 1compared to that of a man who, if a fly falls into his cup, puts the cup asideand does not drink from it any more—meaning that Pappos b. Yehuda notonly locks away his wife so that she cannot go astray but that he also refrainsfrom intercourse with her because she has become doubtful.The dubious reputation of our hero’s mother is further emphasized bythe statement that she grew her hair to a great length. Whatever the originalmeaning of the odd phrase, 19 the context in Shabbat 104b/Sanhedrin67a clearly suggests that Miriam’s long and apparently unfastened hairwas indicative of her indecent behavior. Another passage in the Talmud(Er 100b) describes the epitome of a “bad woman” as follows: “She growslong hair like Lilith (megaddelt śa