Toledot Yeshu in context : the Jewish "Life of Jesus" in ancient, medieval, and modern history / edited by Daniel Barbu and Yaacov Deutsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barbu, Daniel, 1981- editor.

Deutsch, Yaacov, editor.

Series:

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 0721-8753 182.

Texts and studies in ancient Judaism = Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, 0721-8753 ; 182

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Toledot Yeshu.

Manuscripts.

Jesus Christ--Jewish interpretations.

Jesus Christ.

Jewish interpretations.

Jewish interpretations of Jesus Christ.

Toledot Yeshu--Manuscripts.

Toledot Yeshu--Publication and distribution.

Transmission of texts.

Christianity.

Judaism.

Jesus--Jewish interpretations.

Toledot Yeshu--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2020]

Language Note:

Text in English, with fragment in Hebrew.

Summary:

"The Jewish 'Life of Jesus' or Toledot Yeshu provides a polemical account of the beginnings of Christianity. The present volume considers this narrative as an object of history, questions its transmission, reception and function within the various historical settings in which it circulated, and seeks to understand its meaning for both Jews and non-Jews from antiquity to the modern era" --book jacket, back cover.

Contents:

Titles and Origins of Toledot Yeshu / Willaim Horbury

On Some Early Traditions in Toledot Yeshu and the Antiquity of the "Helena" Recension / Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra

The Alternative Chronology: Dating the Events of the Wagenseil Version of Toledot Yeshu / Gavin McDowell

Jesus the Magician in the "Pilate" Recension of Toledot Yeshu / Gideon Bohak

The Mothers in the Manuscripts: Gender, Motherhood, and Power in Toledot Yeshu / Sarit Kattan Gribetz

Toledot Yeshu in the Context of Polemic and Sīra Literature in the Middle East from the Fatimid to the Mamluk Era / Alexandra Cuffel

"A Real Spark of Sama'el": Kabbalistic Reading(s) of Toledot Yeshu / Jonatan M. Benarroch

The Secret Booklet from Germany: Circulation and Transmission of Toledot Yeshu at the Borders of the Empire / Daniel Barbu and Yann Dahhaoui

Martin Luther, Toledot Yeshu, and "the Rabbis" / Stephen Burnett

Yiddish Toledot Yeshu Manuscripts from the Netherlands / Evi Michels

The "History of the Life of Jesus" in a Yiddish Manuscript from the Eighteenth Century (Ms. Jerusalem, NLI, Heb. 8° 5622) / Claudia Rosenzweig

"I Am Not Writing an Apology": Samuel Krauss's Das Leben Jesu in Context / Yonatan Moss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783161593000

3161593006

OCLC:

1224229097