{"id":262,"date":"2009-12-17T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/12\/jesus-in-the-talmud.html"},"modified":"2009-12-17T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T06:15:00","slug":"jesus-in-the-talmud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/12\/jesus-in-the-talmud.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus in the Talmud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under my post <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/12\/the-jewish-case-for-christmas.html\">The Jewish Case for Christmas<\/a>, there was starting to develop a thread of conversation that I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable with. One reader cast up a bunch of quotes he found on the Internet about Jesus as portrayed in the Talmud while another reader, a frequent, thoughtful, and most welcome commenter, tried to argue that the Jesus who appears there isn&#8217;t the Jesus in the New Testament.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first reader then came back with more scandalous Internet-gathered material at which point I felt things were getting out of hand and decided not to publish his further comments. The Internet is really a wicked invention &#8212; but there&#8217;s no escaping it, which is why I blog &#8212; allowing so much garbage to float around unedited. Nevertheless, the subject that my two readers had opened up is an interesting one, and one that I have written on before, both in my book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385510225\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0385510217&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=0J4PEW1CXCA981MR74FV\">Why the Jews Rejected Jesus<\/a><\/i> and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6411679.html\">a little interview I did for <\/a><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6411679.html\">Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/i> with Princeton&#8217;s Peter Schaefer. His book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jesus-Talmud-Peter-Schafer\/dp\/0691129266\">Jesus in the Talmud<\/a><\/i> seems to be the most authoritative word on the topic. My conclusion in a nutshell:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>It seems fair to say now&#8230;that the Talmud is every bit as offensive to Christians as the Gospels are to Jews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under my post The Jewish Case for Christmas, there was starting to develop a thread of conversation that I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable with. 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