According to the Talmud, the authoritative Jewish holy book. Yeshu was the son of a Jewish woman named Miriam who was betrothed to a carpenter. "Betrothed" means she was legally married to him, but she was not yet living with him or having sexual relations with him. The story says that Miriam was either raped by or voluntarily slept with Pandeira, a Greek or Roman soldier. Miriam than gave birth to Yeshu, who was considered a "mamzer" (bastard), a product of an adulterous relationship. The Talmud describes Yeshu as a heretic who dabbled in sorcery and lead the people astray. He was eventually executed. Yeshu is the real name for what the Greeks erroneously translated into Jesus, Miriam is the Jewish form of Mary, and according to the Christian New testament her husband was the carpenter known as Joseph. The working of Jesus’s miracles could also be viewed as sorcery or magic, and Jesus was executed. So what we have here is a biography of Jesus written by his own people the Jews.
Why do Christians accept as truth the New Testament, written in Greek long after Jesus was dead, by foreigners who had never met Jesus, when here is a biography written about him by his own people? Surely him being a mamzer is more plausible then virgin birth.
Why do Christians accept the whole of the Old Testament, a collection of Jewish holy stories lierally, but reject this Jewish biography of Jesus in favour of some Greek myths of extremely dubious origin?
2006-06-27
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