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Nyet3/06/2015 10:26:58 am PST

re: #346 The Mother Of All Pies

Those passages have been challenged by scholars as bogus. There were some satirical works dating to the 18th century, Toledot Yeshu and Hisronot Hashas containingn the alleged “missing parts of the Talmud” but those passages are not found in the actual Mesechte Sanhedrin.

Not really, at most scholars like Johann Meier challenge the historical value of the references. The passages were censored out both due to Christian censorship and due to understandable self-censorship, but they can be found in the oldest manuscripts, e.g. the Munich manuscript. See e.g. this article (as well as Schfer’s book):