The names Miriam and Yeshu appear in the Jewish Bible, where they obviously do not refer to the Christian figures, and both names were evidently commonly used in the era of the Talmud. The most ...

Even today the standard Vilna edition of the Talmud omits any discussion about "Yeshu," Jesus in Hebrew. The Jesus omissions began to be restored in the last century, Bayme said. And the passages ...

When the baby Jesus (Yeshu) was born, the rabbis declared him a mamzer, a bastard child born of an illicit relationship. The Talmud makes references to him as Yeshu ben Pantera (Jesus, son of ...

Yeshu took the gesture as a final rejection and left, never to return. The Talmud teaches to be “not like Yehoshua ben Perahya who pushed with both hands.” When criticizing or opposing ...

If the books the Forward receives for review are any indication, I am not alone in my neurosis about Yeshu ben Yoseph ... Peter Schafer’s “Jesus in the Talmud,” were once considered so ...

The Talmud, the book of Jewish law, is one of the most challenging religious texts in the world. But it is being read in ever larger numbers, partly thanks to digital tools that make it easier to ...

Although the name Yeshu does not appear here (it may have been censored, as it was in other places in the Talmud, by later rabbinical authorities, fearful of Christian reactions), there is no ...