User talk:Ret.Prof/Jesus in the Talmud
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The article on Jesus in the Talmud is good. The sources are reliable and the editors have put in a lot of hard work. There is very little I would delete. My improvements are twofold.
Update with 21st sources
I have added material from the following modern sources:
- Robert E. Van Voorst, Jesus Outside the New Testament, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2000.
- Brad Young, Meet the rabbis: rabbinic thought and the teachings of Jesus, Hendrickson Publishers, 2007.
- Craig A. Evans (ed), Encyclopedia of the historical Jesus, Routledge Pub, 2008.
- Barrie Wilson, How Jesus Became Christian, Random House, 2009.
- Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud, Princeton University Press, 2009.
- Andreas J. Köstenberger, The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament,B&H Publishing Group, 2009.
- Bart D. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?, HarperCollins, 2012.
- James D. G. Dunn, The Oral Gospel Tradition, Eerdmans Publishing, 2013.
- Maurice Casey, Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? A&C Black Pub, 2014.
- J. Gordon Melton (ed), Faiths Across Time: 5,000 Years of Religious History, ABC-CLIO, 2014.
- H. Patrick Glenn, Legal traditions of the world: sustainable diversity in law, Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Ret.Prof (talk) 13:35, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
NPOV
There was a bit of a POV problem that caused some confusion. My solution was to divide the article into two parts.
Part I: What does the Talmud say
In the first section I focused on what the Talmud said about Jesus. I also explained how it came into being. This section was quite straight forward as there is little disagreement among scholars.
Part II: Authenticity
Here the scholarship is all over the place. There is great debate as to the trustworthiness of what the Talmud said about Jesus. I have tried to present all positions from a NPOV.
Ret.Prof (talk) 14:29, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Your Article
Your Article entitled, Jesus in the Talmud, is very well-written and seems to be exhaustive in its sources quoted. Good work, Retired Professor. All the best to you! Davidbena (talk) 15:49, 18 July 2014 (UTC)