Jesus Christ In The Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, And The Liturgy Of The Synagogue

PREFACE: The attractive subject of Heir Laible's recently published essay ("Jesus Christus im Thalmud") leads me to think that the passages on which he bases his work, and the comments which he makes upon them, cannot be without interest for the English reader, even though the conclusions which he reaches may not on all occasions appear entitled to equally full assent. On my suggesting this to Dr. Hermann L. Strack of Berlin (at whose suggestion, as will be seen from the preface to the German edition, Herr Laible undertook the task) I received permission to make use of a large number of spare printed copies of the original texts (numbers i — xxiv ; pages 5* — 19*) which had been edited by Dr Gustaf H. Dalman of Leipzig. In order to secure in each case the best available (unexpurgated) text, the following editions were used by him: 1. Palestinian Talmud, Venice, 1523 — 4. 2. Babylonian Talmud, Venice. B'ralchoth, Shabbath, Sota, Gittin, Sanhedrin, 'Aboda zara, 1520; Chagigah, 1521; Soph'rim, 1522; Aboth, 1526; 'Erubin, Kallah, J'bamoth, 1528. Variants in the MSS. used by Rabbinovicz (Dikduke Soph'rim, or Variae Lectiones in Mischnam et in Talmud Babylonicum, Munich, 1867 — 1886) are indicated thus: M = the Munich, = the Oxford, FL = the Florence, K = the Karlsruhe MS. For the treatises not dealt with by Rabbinovicz, 'En Ja'akob, Venice, 1546, was specially used. 3. Tosephta, Zuckermandel, Pasewalk, 1880.