PASSAGES FROM THE RABBINICAL
LITERA TUBE,
ILLUSTRATING THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF
CHRISTIANITY IN THE EARLY CENTURIES
DIVISION I
A.-PASSAGES RELATING TO JESUS
BIRTH AND PARENTAGE OF JESUS
(1) b. Shabbath
104b.
(The passage in [ ] occurs
also b. Sanh.
67x.)
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He who cuts upon his
f l esh." It is tradition that Rabbi Eliezer said
to the Wise, ` Did not Ben Stada bring spells
from Egypt in a cut which was upon his
f l esh?' They said to him, ' He was a fool,
and they do not bring a proof from a fool.'
[Ben Stada is Ben Pandira. Rab Hisda said,
'The husband was Stada, the paramour was
Pandira.' The husband was Pappos ben
Jehudah, the mother was Stada. The mother
was Miriam the dresser of women's hair, as
we say in Pumbeditha, ' Such a one has been
false to her husband.']
Commentary.'-The above passage occurs in a
'
I would here express generally my indebtedness to the work of
Heinrich Laible, " Jesus Christus im Talmud," Berlin, 1891. In the
section
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