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Toledot Yeshu ("The Life Story of Jesus") Revisited - A Princeton Conference (Hardcover)
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Toledot Yeshu ("The Life Story of Jesus") Revisited - A Princeton Conference (Hardcover)
Series: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 143
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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 authors of Late Antiquity, such
as Celsus, Justin, and Tertullian. In the Middle Ages, the book
became the object and tool of a most acrimonious controversy. Jews,
Christians, and atheists - such as Ibn Shaprut, Luther, and
Voltaire - quoted and commented on Toledot Yeshu, trying to
disprove the beliefs of their opponents and revealing their own
prejudices. Due to the offensive nature of the book, scholars have
until recently paid little attention to Toledot Yeshu . In 2007,
Peter Schafer launched a project at Princeton University to prepare
a scholarly edition with translation and commentary based on all
the available manuscripts (about 150). Along with this project,
Peter Schafer, Michael Meerson, and Yaacov Deutsch organized an
international conference, attended by the leading scholars of the
subject, to discuss the present state of research. The conference
contributions, published in this volume, mark a new stage in
Toledot Yeshu research.
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