Toledot Yeshu ("The Life of Jesus") Polemics as Indication for Jewish-Christian Interaction
Toledot Yeshu ("The Life of Jesus") Polemics as Indication for Jewish-Christian Interaction
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
Monday, April 1, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Francis Scott Key Hall,
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Toledot Yeshu is a Jewish parodic account of the life of Jesus that is first attested in the early Middle Ages. Stoekl shows that the text must be considerably earlier—perhaps the fifth century CE—and that the Christian authors knew more than a little about contemporary Christians and Christianity. What, then, does this text tell us about Jews,about Christians, and about how they interacted in late antiquity.
Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Research Professor of Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, University Paris Sciences-Letters. Dr. Ben Ezra has worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Rabbinics and ancient Jewish-Christian relations.