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JESUS IN THE TALMUD (Draft)
From before the time of Jesus, the Jewish community in Palestine had developed an extensive oral tradition which elaborated upon the Law of Moses. Eventually this Oral Law was written down to form the Talmud. This Jewish work appears to contains passages that refer to Jesus. However scholars are divided regarding the reliability of these vitriolic attacks on early Christianity.
The Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud (Palestinian Talmud or Talmud de-Eretz Yisrael) are the two major versions that we have today. The modern Talmud has no references to Jesus, as they were removed by censorship. However, the name of Jesus occurs 20 times in the unexpurgated editions.