5/26/2008
What the Talmud Really Says About Jesus
“What exactly is so scandalous? How about Jesus punished in
Hell for eternity by being made to sit in a cauldron of boiling excrement? That
image appears in early manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud, as does a brief
account of Jesus’ trial and execution—not by the Romans but by the Jewish high
court, the Sanhedrin.”
---- Publisher’s Weekly
story on new book called Jesus in the Talmud
Comment by David Duke –
The following article appeared in Publisher’s Weekly, a mainstream literary
magazine and website. It concerns a new book, Jesus in the Talmud, that
exposes the shocking truth about the position of Judaism toward Jesus
Christ. It was written by none other than Dr. Peter Schaefer, head of Princeton
University Judaic Studies Program and one of the world’s most famous academic
authorities on Judaism. Once again my research and writings have
been verified by the most respected of academics. The facts are clear. The
Talmud, which is the highest authority of Judaism, not only makes hateful and
pornographic attacks against Jesus Christ, it even boasts that the Jewish
community, not the Romans, arrested, tried and executed Jesus. In fact, the
Talmud exudes so much hatred against Jesus that it claims the Jewish priests
subjected his body to a series of four different torturous executions. It is
not anti-Semitic to state these facts, it is simply the truth. It is not
anti-Semitic to expose Jewish extremism and hatred, again, it is simply the
truth. Why is it that radical Christians or Muslims are freely exposed in the
mass media, but Jewish extremism is a forbidden subject? Why is it that when a
political figure exposes racial or religious hatred among Christians or
Muslims, he wins media praise and “humanitarian awards,” but if a
political figure dares to expose Jewish hatred and extremism, he himself is
called a hater and anti-Semite? The fact is that there is no greater enemy of
Jesus Christ and Christianity than Judaism and the Jewish extremists who run
Israel and have so much influence over the American media and American
politics. (The Washington Post admits that 50-60 percent of political
contributions for President come from Jewish sources). Some so-called Christian
evangelists are now raising money among Christians to support these
anti-Christian, extremist Jews! For a full, thoroughly documented account of
this issue, read my new 2007 edition of Jewish Supremacism.
From Publisher’s Weekly
— Will Peter Schaefer’s new book, Jesus in the Talmud (Mar.),
be controversial? “I’m afraid so,” Schaefer told RBL. “That’s why I’m
nervous.”
His
editor at Princeton University Press, Brigitta van Rheinberg, laughed but
agreed: “You think, oh, whoa, this is not going to go over well in certain
circles.”
Schaefer,
who heads up Princeton’s Judaic studies program, has collected and analyzed all
the passages in the Talmud that apparently refer to the founder of
Christianity, texts that were previously censored from Talmud editions for
centuries. In his book he argues—against other scholars—that the scandalous
passages indeed refer not to some other figure of ancient times but to the
famous Jesus of Nazareth.
What exactly is so scandalous? How about Jesus punished in Hell for eternity by being made to sit in a cauldron of boiling excrement? That image appears in early manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud, as does a brief account of Jesus’ trial and execution—not by the Romans but by the Jewish high court, the Sanhedrin. The Jewish community, to the extent Jews were even aware of these excised texts, has been content to let them remain obscure and unknown.
Schaefer,
a distinguished German-born Christian scholar who describes classical rabbinic
literature as “my first love,” has now definitively let the cat out of the bag.
This undermines a widespread assumption that, of Judaism’s and Christianity’s
respective sacred texts, only the Christian Gospels go out of their way to
assail the rival faith, whereas Judaism’s classical texts refrain from similar
attacks.
It
seems fair to say now, however, that the Talmud is every bit as offensive to
Christians as the Gospels are to Jews.
The
Talmud’s scattered portrait of Jesus unapologetically mocks Christian doctrines
including the virgin birth and the resurrection. Which isn’t to say that the
rabbinic invective is meant simply to insult. In his book, the author calls the
Talmud’s assault on Christian claims “devastating.”
“It
is a very serious argument,” said Schaefer, who emphasizes that the rabbis’
stories about Jesus were never intended as an attempt at historically accurate
narrative. Rather, in the classic Talmudic style, they encode legal and
theological argumentation in the form of sometimes-imaginative storytelling.
One
naturally wonders, when Jesus in the Talmud is published, what the
results will be for Jewish-Christian relations. “I certainly don’t want to harm
Jewish-Christian dialogue. God forbid,” Schaefer said. But dialogue requires
honesty, and “I’m trying to be honest.”
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