- Note - With all the controversy regarding Mel Gibson's
upcoming film 'The Passion' about whether the Jews were cast as the killers
of Christ, it is worth considering the words of one of Israel's greatest
contemporary scholars, the late Israel Shahak...
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- "What is at issue here is not the actual facts about
Jesus but the inaccurate and even slanderous reports in the Talmud and
post-talmudic literature - which is what Jews believed until the 19th Century
and many, especially in Israel, still believe. For these reports certainly
played an important role in forming the Jewish attitude toward Christianity.
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- According to the Talmud, Jesus was executed by a proper
Rabbinical Court for 'idolatry', inciting other Jews to idolatry, and contempt
of Rabbinical authority period. All classical Jewish sources which mention
his execution are quite happy to take responsibility for it; in the talmudic
account the Romans are not even mentioned."
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- Pgs 97-98
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- Comparing Jewish sentiment toward Islam and Christianity,
Shahak writes:
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- "Although the stock epithet given to Mohammed is
'madman' ('meshugga'), this was not nearly as offensive as it may sound
now, and in any case it pales before the abusive terms applied to Jesus."
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- Pg 98
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