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Sefer Toledot Yeshu (ספר תולדות ישו, The Book of the Generations/History/Life of Jesus),
often abbreviated as
Toledot Yeshu, is a
medieval text which...
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Toledot, Toldot, Toldos, or
Toldoth (תּוֹלְדֹת—Hebrew for "generations" or "descendants," the
second word and the
first distinctive word in the parashah)...
- with a
toledot. The
toledot divide the book into the
following sections:
Genesis 1:1–2:3 In the
beginning (prologue)
Genesis 2:4–4:26
Toledot of Heaven...
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generally only paid
minor attention to the
Toledot Yeshu.
Robert E. Van
Voorst states that the
literary origins of
Toledot Yeshu cannot be
traced with any certainty...
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Hebrew literature contains the
anecdotal "Episode of Jesus" (known also as
Toledot Yeshu), in
which Jesus is
described as
being the son of Joseph, the son...
- tractate. The
earliest known example of this
theory comes from
medieval Toledot Yeshu narratives. This has led to the accusation,
first voiced by the anti-Judaist...
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generally regarded as
legendary or
polemical by scholars. One
example is the
Toledot Yeshu, a
parody gospel probably first written about 1,000
years after Christ...
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structured around the five-fold
repetition of the
toledot formula ("These are the
generations of..."): The
toledot of
heaven and
earth (Genesis 1:1–4:26) The...
- Maimonides'
Mishneh Torah (Hilchos
Melachim 11:4,
uncensored version). In the
Toledot Yeshu the name of
Yeshu is
taken to mean
yimakh shemo (May his name be...
- the
Toledot Yeshu has no
historical facts and was
perhaps created as a tool for
warding off
conversions to Christianity. The
tales from the
Toledot Yeshu...
