Other Jewish Accounts ...
do any other Jewish accounts besides that of Josephus verify anything about Jesus? what about references to Jesus in the Talmud, an important Jewish work finished in about AD 500 that incorporates the Mishnah, compiled about AD 200? Jews, as a whole, did not go into great detail about heretics, there are a few passages in the Talmud that mention Jesus, calling him a false messiah who practiced magic and who was justly condemned to death, they also repeat the rumor that Jesus was born of a Roman soldier and Mary, suggesting that there was something unusual about his birth, so in a negative way these Jewish references do corroborate some things about Jesus, Professor M. Wilcox put it this way, in an article that appeared in a scholarly reference book ...
the Jewish traditional literature, although it mentions Jesus only quite sparingly (and must in any case be used with caution), supports the gospel claim that he was a healer and miracle-worker, even though it ascribes these activities to sorcery, in addition, it preserves the recollection that he was a teacher, and that he had disciples (five of them), and that at least in the earlier Rabbinic period no all of the sages had finally made up their minds that he was a "heretic" or a "deceiver"
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