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Christianity teaches that the New Testament interprets or "completes" the Old Testament (Judaism's Hebrew Bible). Within Judaism, the Talmud serves much the same function.
The Talmud, a text not often touched by New Testament scholars, also contains a number of obvious references to Jesus and his family. Jesus is called a Nazarene as one of the names given him.
It is extremely difficult to know whether the stories and observations about Jesus in the Talmud (see Sotah: 43a-b; 47a; Sanhedrin: 47a; Gittin: 56b and 57a) actually refer to the Jesus of the New ...
For accuracy and clarification purposes, the Forum column on Feb. 17 — “Calvin Coolidge, Brian Williams and the unsigned political right” — cited Jesus as a Jew who lived by the Talmud and ...
During the Lenten season of 2004 there was considerable fury over Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ and its depiction of Jewish leaders conspiring to hand Jesus over to the Romans for ...
The Talmud features a mix of biblical verses, Mishna chapters, and other stories and commentaries. “Unfortunately, no original manuscript of the Talmud from the time of its compilation has ...
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
The Talmud is not easy to read for various reasons. The Mishnah is written in new Hebrew, a Hebrew in which many new words and phrases were coined to express new ideas, and in which foreign ...