Jesus in the Talmud Quotes

“This scathing attack on the Christian claim of parthenogenesis may well explain the use of the strange name Panthera/Pantera/Pandera/Pantiri in most of its variations6 for Miriam’s lover and Jesus’ real father (in Greek as well as in rabbinic sources). The last derivation among all the possibilities that Maier discusses, and that he finds “captivating at first glance” but nevertheless dismisses,7 is the assumption of an intentional distortion of parthenos (“virgin”) to pantheros (“panther”).”
― Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud

“The Babylonian Jews in the Sasanian Empire, living in a non-Christian and even progressively anti-Christian environment, could easily take up, and continue, the discourse of their brethren in Asia Minor; and it seems as if they were no less timid in their response to the New Testament’s message and in particular to the anti-Jewish bias that is so prominent in the Gospel of John.”
― Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud

“There is every reason to believe that the Gospel of John was spread and well known in Babylonia, if not separately then in the version of Tatian’s Diatessaron with its predilection for John.”
― Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud

“There exists hardly any other New Testament text that is more unambiguous and firm in Jesus’ mission on earth and his divine origin, indeed his identification with God,114 and that is sterner in its attitude toward the Jews than the Gospel of John.”
― Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud