Jews have long been accused of studying anti-Christian texts supposedly contained in the Talmud. Such allegations have been made for so many centuries that even some civilized and fair-minded ...

Jesus in the Talmud By Peter Schafer (Princeton University Press, 210 pp., $24.95) When The Passion of the Christ elicited such great public controversy a few years ago, ...

The Talmud really does say some nasty things about certain non-Jews, and about a fellow named Jesus, although the 13th century rabbis could dispute whether or not this was the same Jesus of New ...

The Talmud makes note of Jesus' miracles. No attempt is made to deny them, but it ascribes them to magical arts from Egypt.

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 ...

The Rabbinic Talmud gives us the answer. It explicitly states that Jesus was “close to the [Roman] government” ( Bavli Sanh 43A , quoted in “Jesus in the Talmud”, Peter Schaefer, p. 65).

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.

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 ...

More than 350 people attended a program at Congregation B'nai Tzedek on Sunday, March 26, in celebration of the dedication of a Talmud donated by Dalbert and Nancy Ginsberg and family, in memory ...