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The Talmud makes note of Jesus' miracles. No attempt is made to deny them, but it ascribes them to magical arts from Egypt.
Jesus’ saying, “As you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me” (Matthew 25:45), possibly followed oral tradition expressed later in Tosefta Sh’vuot 3: “One who ...
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 ...
Using quotations from the Talmud, the central text of Rabbinic Judaism, Christiani argued that the pharisaic contemporaries of Jesus believed him to be the Messiah. Nachmanides responded that ...
The Talmud is almost as sacred to Jews as Scripture, but by no means does every Jew know what is in it. English editions of the 20-volume compilation of law and learning run to several hundred ...
In late 2019, I came upon an article about Daf Yomi — the practice of reading a page of the Talmud every day over the course of seven and a half years — and decided to sign up for a daily ...
The prospect of studying Talmud for a week seemed intimidating to Noah Rubin-Blose, who grew up culturally Jewish and wasn’t too familiar with the Hebrew letters, much less the central texts of ...
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