User talk:Ret.Prof/Jesus in the Talmud

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The article on Jesus in the Talmud is good. The sources are reliable and the editors have put in a lot of hard work. There is very little I would delete. My improvements are twofold.

Update with 21st sources

I have added material from the following modern sources:

• Robert E. Van Voorst, Jesus Outside the New Testament, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2000.
• Brad Young, Meet the rabbis: rabbinic thought and the teachings of Jesus, Hendrickson Publishers, 2007.
• Craig A. Evans (ed), Encyclopedia of the historical Jesus, Routledge Pub, 2008.
• Barrie Wilson, How Jesus Became Christian, Random House, 2009.
• Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud, Princeton University Press, 2009.
• Andreas J. Köstenberger, The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament,B&H Publishing Group, 2009.
• Bart D. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?, HarperCollins, 2012.
• James D. G. Dunn, The Oral Gospel Tradition, Eerdmans Publishing, 2013.
• Maurice Casey, Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? A&C Black Pub, 2014.
• J. Gordon Melton (ed), Faiths Across Time: 5,000 Years of Religious History, ABC-CLIO, 2014.
• H. Patrick Glenn, Legal traditions of the world: sustainable diversity in law, Oxford University Press, 2014.

- Ret.Prof (talk) 13:35, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

NPOV

There was a bit of a POV problem that caused some confusion. My solution was to divide the article into two parts.

Part I: What does the Talmud say

In the first section I focused on what the Talmud said about Jesus. I also explained how it came into being. This section was quite straight forward as there is little disagreement among scholars.

Part II: Authenticity

Here the scholarship is all over the place. There is great debate as to the trustworthiness of what the Talmud said about Jesus. I have tried to present all positions from a NPOV.

Ret.Prof (talk) 14:29, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Your Article

Your Article entitled, Jesus in the Talmud, is very well-written and seems to be exhaustive in its sources quoted. Good work, Retired Professor. All the best to you! Davidbena (talk) 15:49, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the words of encouragement. - Ret.Prof (talk) 03:30, 1 September 2014 (UTC)