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The Talmud

Jerusalem Late 4TH-5TH CE

Babylonian 3RD-6TH CE

  • They utilize satire and counter-narratives as polemics to discredit and delegitimize Christianity's association with Judaism.
  • "Yeshu" is widely interpreted as an acronym for "Yimach Shemo Ve-zikro" (ימח שמו וזכרו), meaning "May his name and memory be blotted out," and is used in the Talmud instead of the proper Yeshua.
  • Yeshu is the son of Pandera/Pantera. A Roman soldier. - Babylonian Sanhedrin 67a/Babylonian Shabbat 104b
  • Sanhedrin 43 a-b
    • The passage about execution* says: "on the eve of Passover they hanged Jesus the Nazarene." or "Jesus the Nazarene is going forth to be stoned."
    • The passage about disciples* says: "Jesus the Nazarene had five disciples." and names them as: Matthai, Naqqai, Netzer, Buni, and Todah.
    • Calls him a sorcerer.
    * editions where it's present.
  • Babylonian Berakoth 17b: "we should not have a child or student who overcooks his food in public, i.e., who sins in public and causes others to sin, as in the well-known case of Jesus the Nazarene."
  • The 1935 Soncino edition of Gittin 56b–57a talks about Yeshu's fate in the after-life.
    • Onkelos the son of Callinicus, son of the sister of Titus, desired to convert himself (to Judaism)...

      (Onkelos) went (and) he conjured Yeshu the Nazarene (from the grave). (Onkelos) said (to Yeshu), "Whom is of importance in that world?" (Yeshu) said (to him), "Israel." (Onkelos further queried) "Should I attach (myself) to them?" He (Yeshu) said; "Their welfare you shall seek, their misfortune you shall not seek, for anyone who touches them is regarded as if he were touching the apple of his eye".

      (Onkelos) said to (Yeshu), "What is the punishment of that man (who seeks their misfortune)?" (Yeshu) said (to Onkelos), "boiling in excrement". As the Master said: Anyone who mocks the words of the Sages will be sentenced to boiling excrement.

      (As said in the Gemara:) Come see the difference between the sinners of Israel and the prophets of the nations of the world.

      — Gittin 57a