Toledot Yeshu

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Sefer Toledot Yeshu (or Toledoth Jeschu) (ספר תולדות ישו, The History of Jesus, Generations of Jesus, or The Life of Jesus) is a medieval version of the story of Jesus from a Jewish perspective. The book concerns Yeshu, son of Joseph and Mary, born in Bethlehem, but also makes this Yeshu a contemporary of Queen Salome Alexandra (139-67 BCE). The work deliberately attacks and parodies the Christian Gospels and refers to Jesus as the illegitimate son of a Roman soldier, devoted to magic powers, a seducer, heretic and the victim of a shameful death. It has been called the counter-gospel, anti-gospel, and anti-evangel and according to Van Voorst is popular polemic against Jesus "run wild." The Toldoth Yeshu are not part of rabbinic literature and are considered neither canonical nor normative. There is no one authoritative Toldoth Yeshu story; rather, various medieval versions existed that differ in attitudes towards the central characters and in story details. It is considered unlikely that any one person wrote it, and each version seems to be from a different set of storytellers. A very recent study reports that more than 100 manuscripts of the Toledot Yeshu exist, almost all of them late medieval (the oldest manuscript being from the 11th century) and containing some details in the text that seem to be late medieval or even early modern era.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 551207847X
• ISBN13: 9785512078471
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 11.0"