Yeshu
Sign in to saveYeshu (Hebrew: Yēšū)) thumb|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Ajron Bach-Yeshu (noun) is the name of possibly one individual or numerous separate individuals mentioned in rabbinic literature. The name is thought by some to refer to Jesus when used in the Talmud. The name Yeshu is also used in other sources before and after the completion of the Babylonian Talmud. It is also the modern Israeli spelling of Jesus.
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28 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Talmud and Tosefta
- The Talmudic accounts in detail
- Yeshu ben Pandera
- Meaning and etymology of Pandera
- Yeshu Ha-Notzri
- Yeshu the sorcerer
- Yeshu summoned by Onkelos
- Yeshu the son who burns his food in public
- Yeshu the student of Joshua ben Perachiah
- Ben Pandera and ben Stada
- Interpretation
- Tannaim and Amoraim
- Early Jewish commentators (Rishonim)
- The Church
- Later Jewish commentators (Acharonim)
- Contemporary Orthodox scholars
- Theosophists and esotericists
- Critical scholarship
- Skeptical writers
- Points on which writers have differed
- The Toledot Yeshu
- Other occurrences
- Use in modern Hebrew as a name for Jesus
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Yeshu (Hebrew: Yēšū)) thumb|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Ajron Bach-Yeshu (noun) is the name of possibly one individual or numerous separate individuals mentioned in rabbinic literature. The name is thought by some to refer to Jesus when used in the Talmud. The name Yeshu is also used in other sources before and after the completion of the Babylonian Talmud. It is also the modern Israeli spelling of Jesus.
The identification of Jesus with any number of individuals named Yeshu has numerous problems, as most of the individuals with this name in Rabbinic texts are referenced as having lived in time periods far detached from, and non-overlapping with that of Jesus. For example, Yeshu the sorcerer is noted for being executed by the Hasmonean government which lost legal authority in 63 BC, Yeshu the student is described being among the Pharisees who returned to Israel from Egypt in 74 BC, and Yeshu ben Pandera/ben Stada's stepfather is noted as speaking with Rabbi Akiva shortly before the rabbi's execution, an event which occurred in c. 134 AD. During the Middle Ages, Ashkenazi Jewish authorities were forced by Catholic clergy to interpret these passages as being in relation to the Christian beliefs about Jesus of Nazareth. As historian David Berger observed,