Toledot Yeshu ('The Life Story of Jesus') Revisited

Title......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Introduction......Page 7
The Date and Provenance of the Aramaic Toledot Yeshu on the Basis of Aramaic Dialectology......Page 18
Agobard's and Amulo's Toledot Yeshu......Page 32
The Strasbourg Text of the Toledot......Page 54
A Preliminary Study of a Yiddish "Life of Jesus" (Toledot Yeshu): JTS Ms. 2211......Page 82
The Toledot Yeshu and Christian Apocryphal Literature: The Formative Years......Page 91
Toledot Yeshu: Folk-Narrative as Polemics and Self Criticism......Page 103
The Toledot Yeshu in the Context of Jewish-Muslim Debate......Page 138
Hanged and Crucified: The Book of Esther and Toledot Yeshu......Page 160
Meaningful Nonsense: A Study of Details in Toledot Yeshu......Page 182
Judas Iscariot: Revealer of the Hidden Truth......Page 197
Simon Peter, Founder of Christianity or Saviour of Israel?......Page 221
Polymorphic Helena - Toledot Yeshu as a Palimpsest of Religious Narratives and Identities......Page 246
The Second Life of the Life of Jesus: Christian Reception of Toledot Yeshu......Page 282
The Toledot Yeshu and Jewish-Christian Conflict in the Medieval Crown of Aragon......Page 295
Index......Page 308