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FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH IN JESUS M. M. NINAN people. Some manuscripts have the name of R. Yehoshua Ben Perachiah's famous colleague as Matai from Arbel [cf. R. Shimon Ben Tzemach Duran, Magen Avot, ed. Zeini (Jerusalem:2000) p. 31]. Passage #6: The Student Tosefta Chullin 2:23 Proof It once happened that R. Elazar ben Damah was bitten by a snake and Ya'akov of the village Sechania came to heal him in the name of Yeshu ben Pandira, but R. Yishmael did not allow him. Here we see the only place in which the names Yeshu and Ben Pandira are connected." As is easily seen the whole Jesus stories are in a mess mixing up events. In spite of that there is the essence of the Christian Jesus in the Talmud. But why did they make this mess? For this we need to look at the history of Jewish literature and the Christian reaction in time. +++++++++++++++++++ Taken as it is it would mean that the Jesus Christ, the Nazarene son of Princess Mirium and Prince Joseph of the dynasty of David is nowhere explicitly found in the Talmud in the discussion of the Rabbis. In 1240 Nicholas Donin, with the support of Pope Gregory IX, referred to Yeshu narratives to support his accusation that the Jewish community had attacked the Virginity of Mary and the divinity of Jesus. In the Disputation of Paris, Yechiel of Paris conceded that one of the Yeshu stories in the Talmud referred to Jesus of Nazareth, but that the other passages referred to other people. In 1372, John of Valladolid, with the support of the Archbishop of Toldeo, made a similar accusation against the Jewish community; Moses ha-Kohen de Tordesillas argued that the Yeshu narratives referred to different people and could not have referred to Jesus of Nazareth Asher ben Jehiel also asserted that the Yeshu of the Talmud is unrelated to the Christian Jesus. Knowing that the Talmud with its commentaries were written down only in the second century and underwent large redactions in the subsequent centuries this is to be expected. In the second century A.D., Rabbi Judah Ha Nasi (A.D. 135-200) purged the Mishnah, part of the Talmud, of many references to Christianity and those who adhered to it. But not everything was edited out. In his classic work, The History of the Talmud, Jewish Talmudic scholar Michael L. Rodkinson wrote: "There were passages in the Mishnayoth concerning Jesus and his teaching...the Messianists... (were) many and considerable persons and in close alliance with their colleagues 122
the Pharisees during the (first) two centuries." FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH IN JESUS M. M. NINAN While most people consider the reference Ben Pandira as son of Pandira. Herford noted the Talmudic text referred to Jesus as "Ben Pandira," roughly translated as "son of a virgin," which was considered an epithet. The Pandira theory took a sharp turn when some where in the Roman empire there was found a monument for a soldier called Pandira. How could Mirium of Palestine came across such a soldier who never even was in Palestine is no concern for them. ++++++++ Gustav Dalman was probably the greatest Aramaic scholar of his day. His "Jesus Christ in the Talmud, Midrash, and the Zohar" was first published in 1894. Extract: Jesus is commonly referred to in the Talmud and in Talmudic literature by the expressions "Son of Stada (Satda)", and "Son of Pandera" These are so accepted that they appear constantly in the Babylonian Talmud (cp. the Targum Sheni on Esther VII 9) even without the name Jesus. It might seem to be a question as to who it is that is to be understood by these. But in the Jerusalem Talmud (Avodah Zarah II. 40d), the full name is given as Yeshu ben Pandera (for which Shabbath XIV 14d has more briefly, Yeshu Pandera); and in the Tosephta on Hullin II, the full name is given as Yeshu ben Pantera and Yeshu ben Pantere. So then Ben Pandera or ben Pantere also bears the name Yeshu. Further, the Jesus the Nazarene who is "hanged on the evening before Passover" (Sanhedrin 43a) is on the other hand (Sanhedrin 67a) also called the "son of Stada (Satda)". It is evident that in both these places the same person is spoken of. Here these two passages may be considered conclusive, since they repeat each other using the similar language, and in a section of the text which is chiefly concerned about Jesus; and so we see that Jesus was also referred to as Ben Stada. Sefer Toledot Yeshu http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-Jews/+Doc-Jews- Catholics&Christianity/JewsTellTalesOnJesus.htm The Toledot Jeshu (Book of the Life of Jesus), is a devastating Hebrew book to belittle the person of Jesus by ascribing to Him illegitimate birth, magic, witchcraft, and a shameful death. The main point of the Toledot is that Jesus is a deceiver and a heretic who was crucified by the Jews and his disciples stole his body and deceived others by proclaiming his resurrection. All the Toledot Jeshu editions declared Jesus Christ to be a bastard. The book which appears in different versions, appear to have been widely circulated in Europe and the Middle East in the medieval period Virgin Mary is portrayed in the Toledot as a woman who conceived Jesus as a result of rape by a Roman soldier, Joseph Pandera. 123
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