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JESUS IN THE TALMUD
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From before the time of Jesus, the Jewish community in Palestine had developed an extensive oral tradition which elaborated upon the Law of Moses. Eventually this Oral Law was written down to form the Talmud and this Jewish work appears to contains passages that refer to Jesus. The Talmud states that on the eve of Passover, Jesus the Nazarene was hanged from a tree and a herald went forth before him forty days proclaiming, "'Jesus the Nazarene is going forth to be stoned because he practiced sorcery and instigated and seduced Israel to idolatry. Whoever knows anything in defense may come and state it.' But since they did not find anything in his defense they hanged him." However scholars are divided on the reliability of this vitriolic attack on Jesus.
The two main forms of the Talmud, are the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud (Palestinian Talmud or Talmud de-Eretz Yisrael). The modern Talmud has no references to Jesus, as they were removed by censorship. However, the name of Jesus occurs 20 times in the unexpurgated editions.