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<table border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><h3>Jesus in the Talmud</h3>

eter SchäferCloth | 2007 | $24.95 / £15.95 | ISBN13: 978-0-691-12926-6 232 pp. | 6 x 9 | 1 halftone. <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8383.html#cart">Shopping Cart</a> | <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8383.html#reviews">Reviews</a> | <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8383.html#TOC">Table of Contents</a> Introduction
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<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8383.pdf">[PDF format]</a></td><td valign="top" align="right" width="200"><form action="/cgi-bin/newdbm2.cgi"><table bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="2" width="190" border="1"><tbody><tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#d3e6f9">SEND ME EMAILS ABOUT NEW BOOKS IN</td></tr><tr><td><input type="checkbox" name="subject"/><a href="http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/subjects/rel.html">Religion</a> <input type="checkbox" name="subject"/><a href="http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/subjects/js.html">Jewish Studies</a> <center><a href="http://press.princeton.edu/enotice2.html">More Choices</a></center></td></tr><tr><td>Email: <input size="22" name="address1"/> Country: <input name="country"/> Name: <input size="22" name="name"/> <center><input type="submit"/></center></td></tr><td></td><tr></tr></tbody></table></form></td></tr></tbody></table>Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they\'re not flattering. In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Schäfer examines how the rabbis of the Talmud read, understood, and used the New Testament Jesus narrative to assert, ultimately, Judaism\'s superiority over Christianity.The Talmudic stories make fun of Jesus\' birth from a virgin, fervently contest his claim to be the Messiah and Son of God, and maintain that he was rightfully executed as a blasphemer and idolater. They subvert the Christian idea of Jesus\' resurrection and insist he got the punishment he deserved in hell--and that a similar fate awaits his followers.Schäfer contends that these stories betray a remarkable familiarity with the Gospels--especially Matthew and John--and represent a deliberate and sophisticated anti-Christian polemic that parodies the New Testament narratives. He carefully distinguishes between Babylonian and Palestinian sources, arguing that the rabbis\' proud and self-confident countermessage to that of the evangelists was possible only in the unique historical setting of Persian Babylonia, in a Jewish community that lived in relative freedom. The same could not be said of Roman and Byzantine Palestine, where the Christians aggressively consolidated their political power and the Jews therefore suffered.A departure from past scholarship, which has played down the stories as unreliable distortions of the historical Jesus, Jesus in the Talmud posits a much more deliberate agenda behind these narratives.

eter Schäfer is Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. His books include Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah (Princeton) and Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World, which has been translated into several languages.<a name="reviews"></a>Reviews:"Meticulously researched and argued as well as clearly and accessibly written, this most intriguing--albeit radical--book is sure to spark interest, debate, and controversy. An essential purchase for academic religion collections and theological libraries."--Library Journal"Schäfer bases his clearly written and exquisitely informed work on a collection of the fragmented texts about Jesus from the heart of the rabbinic period, a cluster of passages he assembles from material scattered throughout the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds and contemporaneous rabbinic literature. The simple gathering of these newly translated texts in one place makes the book an excellent English-language resource for researchers and laypersons alike."--Stephen Hazan Arnoff, Haaretz"

eter Schafer\'s Jesus in the Talmud reviews well-trodden territory but derives new and important readings from this familiar evidence. Applying contemporary historiographical methods, Schafer offers a convincing explanation of the talmudic texts about Jesus."--Ruth Langer, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations"In the talmudic references to Jesus . . . Schäfer persuasively finds sophisticated \'counternarratives that parody the New Testament stories,\' composed by Jews who evinced a precise knowledge of the New Testament. The true accomplishment of Jesus in the Talmud is to show how certain talmudic passages are actually subtle rereadings of the New Testament, \'a literary answer to a literary text.\' With considerable skill, Schäfer weaves these together until they can be seen to form an intricate theological discourse that prefigures the disputations between Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages."--Benjamin Balint, First ThingsEndorsements:"Peter Schäfer\'s remarkable volume on Jesus\' enigmatic place in Talmudic literature is a work of erudition and depth. It will bring deeper knowledge to students and teachers of Judaism and Christianity."--Elie Wiesel<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/quotes/q8383.html">More endorsements</a><a name="TOC"></a>Table of Contents:Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Jesus\' Family 15 Chapter 2: The Son/Disciple Who Turned out Badly 25 Chapter 3: The Frivolous Disciple 34 Chapter 4: The Torah Teacher 41 Chapter 5: Healing in the Name of Jesus 52 Chapter 6: Jesus\' Execution 63 Chapter 7: Jesus\' Disciples 75 Chapter 8: Jesus\' Punishment in Hell 82 Chapter 9: Jesus in the Talmud 95 Appendix: Bavli Manuscripts and Censorship 131 Notes 145 Bibliography 191 Index 203