[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":101},["ShallowReactive",2],{"topic-jesus":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":93,"extension":94,"meta":95,"navigation":96,"path":97,"seo":98,"stem":99,"__hash__":100},"topics\u002Ftalmudic-topics\u002Fjesus.md","Does The Talmud Say Jesus Is Boiling In Excrement In Hell?",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":89},"minimark",[9,18,37,52,59,62],[10,11,12,13,17],"p",{},"No. The cited passage — ",[14,15,16],"em",{},"Gittin 57a"," — describes the future convert Onkelos summoning notorious villains to ask whether their wickedness saved them in the world to come. One figure, called \"Yeshu,\" replies that Israel should be honored and protected, and is punished in \"boiling excrement\" because, as the Talmud states in the same line, \"whoever mocks the words of the sages is punished in boiling excrement.\" It is a general principle about scoffers of rabbinic teaching, not a verdict invented for one person.",[10,19,20,21,24,25,28,29,32,33,36],{},"This Yeshu is not Jesus of Nazareth. The standard rabbinic reading — supported by ",[14,22,23],{},"Tosafot",", ",[14,26,27],{},"Tosafot HaRosh",", and R. Avraham Zacuto's ",[14,30,31],{},"Sefer Hayuchasin"," — places him in the reign of Alexander Janneus, roughly a century before Jesus, as an excommunicated student of R. Yehoshua Ben Perachiah. The name was common; Josephus alone records about twenty men named Jesus from that era. The title \"HaNotzri\" (\"the Nazarene\") appears in only one manuscript family and is widely treated as a later interpolation, and ",[14,34,35],{},"Notzri"," itself is a biblical term (Jeremiah 4:16) used in the Talmud even for the bandit-chief Odenathus of Palmyra.",[10,38,39,40,43,44,47,48,51],{},"Mainstream scholarship agrees. Johann Maier (",[14,41,42],{},"Jesus von Nazareth in der talmudischen Überlieferung",") and the Catholic historian John P. Meier (",[14,45,46],{},"A Marginal Jew",") both conclude that \"in the earliest rabbinic sources, there is no clear or even probable reference to Jesus of Nazareth,\" as does Joseph Klausner (",[14,49,50],{},"Jesus of Nazareth",").",[10,53,54,55,58],{},"The accusation also contradicts itself: anti-Talmud polemics usually claim that ",[14,56,57],{},"Balaam"," is a coded reference to Jesus — but Balaam and Yeshu are summoned as two distinct people in this same passage. Both claims cannot be true at once.",[10,60,61],{},"Sources:",[63,64,65,75,82],"ul",{},[66,67,68],"li",{},[69,70,74],"a",{"href":71,"rel":72},"https:\u002F\u002Faish.com\u002Fwhat-the-talmud-really-says-about-jesus\u002F",[73],"nofollow","Rabbi Daniel Rowe & Aish HaTorah Studios",[66,76,77],{},[69,78,81],{"href":79,"rel":80},"http:\u002F\u002Ftalmud.faithweb.com\u002Farticles\u002Fjesus.html",[73],"Rabbi Gil Student – Jesus In The Talmud",[66,83,84],{},[69,85,88],{"href":86,"rel":87},"http:\u002F\u002Ftalmud.faithweb.com\u002Farticles\u002Fjesusnarr.html",[73],"Rabbi Gil Student – The Jesus Narrative In The Talmud",{"title":90,"searchDepth":91,"depth":91,"links":92},"",2,[],"Examining the Gittin 57a passage about \"Yeshu\" and why it does not refer to Jesus of Nazareth.","md",{},true,"\u002Ftalmudic-topics\u002Fjesus",{"title":5,"description":93},"talmudic-topics\u002Fjesus","D8QUhc_93jz2FV5PtrnPkEglqD4mU67L_55qzAq6PHI",1778048375453]