Jesus ‘Was Close to the Authorities’: The Historical Background of a Talmudic Pericope

The famous pericope in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin folio 43a, which contains the passage ‘On the eve of Passover they have hanged Jesus’ and the mysterious phrase ‘Jesus was close to the authorities’, has long puzzled biblical scholars, who wonder whether we have here an astonishing pi...

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Main Author: Mark, Gunther (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press 2009
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 437-466
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