Toledot Yeshu ("the life story of Jesus") revisited : a Princeton conference / edited by Peter Schafer, Michael Meerson, Yaacov Deutsch.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Toledot Yeshu ("The Life Story of Jesus") Revisited (Conference), Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Schäfer, Peter.

Meerson, Michael.

Deutsch, Yaacov.

Princeton University, Content Provider.

Conference Name:

Toledot Yeshu ("The Life Story of Jesus") Revisited (Conference) (2009 : Princeton, N.J.)

Toledot Yeshu ("The Life Story of Jesus") Revisited (Conference)

Series:

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 143.

Texts and studies in ancient Judaism, 0721-8753 ; 143

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Biography--Apocryphal and legendary literature--Congresses.

Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ--Chronology--Congresses.

Toledot Yeshu.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hauptbeschreibung One of the most controversial books in history, Toledot Yeshu recounts the life story of Jesus from a negative and anti-Christian perspective. It ascribes to Jesus an illegitimate birth, a theft of the Ineffable Name of God, heretical activities, and, finally, a disgraceful death. Perhaps for centuries, the Toledot Yeshu circulated orally until it coalesced into various literary forms. Although the dates of these written compositions remain obscure, some early hints of a Jewish counter-history of Jesus can be found in the works of pagan and Christian autho

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Peter Schäfer: Introduction; Michael Sokoloff: The Date and Provenance of the Aramaic Toledot Yeshu on the Basis of Aramaic Dialectology; The Publication of the Aramaic Texts; Previous Discussions of the Aramaic Language of the Texts; Linguistic Analysis of the Vocabulary of TY; 1. Morphology; 2. Syntax; 3. Vocabulary; Conclusions; Peter Schäfer: Agobard's and Amulo's Toledot Yeshu; Agobard; Amulo; William Horbury: The Strasbourg Text of the Toledot; 1.; 2.; 3.; Adina M. Yoffie: Observations on the Huldreich Manuscripts of the Toledot Yeshu

The Manuscript Evidence and Implications for AuthorshipPreliminary Efforts at Dating the Huldreich; The Uniqueness of the Huldreich: Rewriting Old Traditions; Conclusion; Michael Stanislawski: A Preliminary Study of a Yiddish ""Life of Jesus"" (Toledot Yeshu): JTS Ms. 2211; 1. The editor's knowledge and citation of different narrative traditions.; 2. Talmud and trial of Jesus.; 3. Historical inaccuracy.; 4. Linguistic markers of the distinctions between Jews and Gentiles.; 5. Halachah.; 6. Attitude to Kabbalah.; 7. Ashkenization.; 8. Differences in narrative itself.; 9. Portrayal of Mary.

Pierluigi Piovanelli: The Toledot Yeshu and Christian Apocryphal Literature: The Formative YearsThe Discovery of a Strange Jewish Anti-Gospel in 1985; The Rediscovery of a Strange Christian Gospel in 1998; The Rediscovery of a Strange Gnostic Gospel in 2006-07; Here and now: The Absence of a Strange Jewish Christian Gospel; Eli Yassif: Toledot Yeshu: Folk-Narrative as Polemics and Self Criticism; Origin; Toledot Yeshu as a Volksbuch; From Victim to Villain; The Turning Point; Charisma and Polemics; The Ineffable Name; From Polemics to Self-criticism

Philip Alexander: The Toledot Yeshu in the Context of Jewish-Muslim DebateThe Toledot Yeshu and the Muslim World; Copies of the Toledot from the Muslim world; The Toledot and the Christian Gospel in the Muslim world; The Toledot Yeshu and the Muslim ""Gospel""; Summary and Conclusions; Sarit Kattan Gribetz: Hanged and Crucified: The Book of Esther and Toledot Yeshu; Introduction; Toledot Yeshu and the Book of Esther; Purim and Anti-Christianity; Toledot Yeshu as Megillah; Conclusion; Michael Meerson: Meaningful Nonsense: A Study of Details in Toledot Yeshu; The Fork; The Flower; The Water

Ora Limor and Israel Jacob Yuval: Judas Iscariot: Revealer of the Hidden TruthSefer Toledot Yeshu; The Burial; The Curse; The Joke; The Pogrom; The Legend of the Finding of the True Cross; The Biography of Judas in the Golden Legend; Epilogue: Judah, Jew, and Israel; John Gager: Simon Peter, Founder of Christianity or Saviour of Israel?; Appendix: Dating Issues; Conclusions; Galit Hasan-Rokem: Polymorphic Helena - Toledot Yeshu as a Palimpsest of Religious Narratives and Identities; Yaacov Deutsch: The Second Life of the Life of Jesus: Christian Reception of Toledot Yeshu

Paola Tartakoff: The Toledot Yeshu and Jewish-Christian Conflict in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Druckversion

ISBN:

1-280-04557-4

9786613519016

3-16-151771-7

OCLC:

782878994