DID YOU KNOW?

The Mishnah is the core of the Talmud, the great collection of Jewish teaching. How often does the Mishnah name Jesus?

The answer

Never. The Mishnah was written down nearly two centuries after his death, and it does not name him. He appears only in commentaries on it written much later.

Why it’s interesting

Those later passages are hard to date. Scholars doubt they help much in piecing together the life of Jesus.

Scholarly consensus

Learn the Bible.

Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.