Jesus in the Latin Talmud

Federico Dal Bo (b. 1973), Ph.D. (University of Bologna, 2005), Ph.D. (Free University of Berlin, 2009), is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. He has published monographs and many articles on Judaism and Philosophy, including Deconstructing the Talmud: The Absolute Book (Routledge, 2019), Judaism, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis in Heidegger's Ontology: Harrowing the Heath (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), and Print, Power, and Cultural Hegemony: A Material History of Early Hebrew Prints (De Gruyter, 2024).

• PrefaceAbbreviationsHebrew and Aramaic Transliteration SystemIntroduction: The Latin Translations of the Talmud1 The Talmud and Talmudic Manuscripts in Medieval France2 Repetitions of the (Jewish) Law: The Church and the “Second Law”3 A Jewish Convert from the 13th Century: Nicholas Donin and the “Second Law”4 Translating the Talmud into Latin: Nicholas Donin and the Other Translators5 The Extractiones de Talmud: The Sequential Version and the Thematic Version6 The Jewish Commentators on the Talmud: Rashi and His Glosses in the Extractiones de Talmud1 Textualizing, De-textualizing and Re-textualizing the Talmud: The Dimension of Text in the Extractiones de Talmud1 Re-casting Augustine’s Paradigm on the Jews2 The “Chain of Tradition” and Its Discontents3 Textualizing Oral Traditions: The Dimension of Text and Speech in the Talmud4 De-textualizing the Talmud: Nicholas Donin’s Thirty-Five Articles Against the Talmud and the Extractiones de Talmud5 The Text and the Commentary: On the Talmud and Its Interpreters6 Re-textualizing the Babylonian Talmud: Glosses and Other Remedies2 The (Un)Holy Family of Jesus in the Babylonian Talmud, Nicholas Donin, the Toledot Yeshu, and the Extractiones de Talmud1 Jesus Ben Stada and Jesus Ben Panthera in Nicholas Donin’s Thirty-Five Articles Against the Talmud and Tractate Sanhedrin2 Ben Stada as Jesus Nazarene in the Extractiones de Talmud and Their Glosses3 The Mention of the Toledot Yeshu in the Thematic Version of the Extractiones de Talmud4 The Contents of the Toledot Yeshu according to the Extractiones de Talmud5 Alleged Talmudic Obligations of Using Blasphemies against Foreign Cults3 Jesus’s Trial in the Babylonian Talmud, Nicholas Donin, and the Extractiones de Talmud1 The Execution of a Death Sentence in the Mishna and the Talmud2 Jesus’s Trial in the Gospels and in Tractate Sanhedrin3 Jesus’s Trial in Nicholas Donin’s Thirty-Five Articles Against the Talmud and the Sequential Version of the Extractiones de Talmud4 Some Missing Material on Jesus’s Trial Reported in Thematic Version of the Extractiones de Talmud4 Jesus’s Punishment in Hell in the Babylonian Talmud and the Extractiones de Talmud1 The Talmudic Context for Jesus’s Punishment in Hell and a Talmud Rationale for Punishing Heretics2 Jesus’s Punishment in Hell in the Babylonian Talmud3 Jesus’s Punishment in Hell in Nicholas Donin’s Thirty-Five Articles Against the Talmud, the Sequential and Thematic Versions of the Extractiones de Talmud, and the Excerptum de Talmud4 The Rationale for Jesus’s Punishment in Hell in Nicholas Donin, the Sequential and the Thematic Version of the Extractiones de Talmud, and the Excerptum de Talmud5 Jesus’s Trial in the Excerptum de Talmud and the Latin Versions of the Disputation of Paris5 Hebrew and Aramaic Terms in the Extractiones de Talmud: The Terms Yeshiva and Metivta in Their Latin Translations1 Scripture, Translations, and Cultural Adaptations2 Translating the Talmud as Negotiating between Judaism and Christianity3 A Historical Premise: Teaching the Talmud in Sasanian Babylon4 Proving the Case: Translating the Terms Yeshiva and Metivta into Latin6 The Mysterious Diseases Askara and Serunki in Their Medieval Reception: Some Lexicographical Insight from the Extractiones de Talmud1 The Rare Hebrew Term Askara in the Talmud2 Rashi’s Understanding of the Term Askara and Other Respiratory Diseases3 Rashi’s Gloss on the Hebrew Term Askara in the Extractiones de Talmud and the Excerptum de Talmud4 A Possible Conclusion: Three Symptoms, Two Diseases7 Talmudic Angelology and the Tosafists: On Metatron in the Babylonian Talmud and the Extractiones de Talmud1 Metatron in Tractate Sanhedrin2 Rabbenu Tam on Metatron3 The Extractiones de Talmud and Their Treatment of Metatron4 Glosses in the Extractiones de Talmud8 A Priest’s “Uncircumcised Heart:” Some Theological-Political Remarks on a Rashi Gloss in Tractate Sanhedrin and the Extractiones de Talmud1 A Talmudic Problem: Accessing Holy Things after Defilement?2 Serving a “Foreign Cult:” The Riʾshonim on Forced Conversions3 Rashi Commenting on Tractate Sanhedrin: The “Son of a Foreigner” in Condition of Uncleanness4 Estrangement from God: The Rishonim Commenting on the “Son of a Foreigner”5 Translating Rashi into Latin: Making the Implicit ExplicitConclusion1 Death Penalty between Theology, Politics, and Authority2 Assimilation through Simplification3 The Latin Translator and His Time4 The Disputation on the Talmud: A Fragmented Anti-Jewish Front5 The Latin Translations of the Talmud: Their Aftermath and ImpactAppendix 1: A Dossier against the TalmudAppendix 2: Some Textual Differences between the Extractiones de Talmud and the Textus Receptus of the TalmudBibliographyIndex