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Questions related to how Judaism regards or relates to the Christian religion or its followers. NOTE: Questions that require independent expertise in Christianity to answer are off-topic.

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The history of Rabbi Samuel the Israelite

According to Prof. Orah Limor in her book in Hebrew "Between Jews and Christians: Jews and Christians in Western Europe Until Modern History", Vol. 3, pg. 87, most scholars believe that the epistle wa …
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Church fathers and the Rabbis

To my knowledge, save for some of Jesus's (who may or may not have been the Jesus of the NT) students and students of students, none of the early Christians are mentioned by name in Chazalic sources, …
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Where is the source of Yeshu (ימח שמו) hearing the Shem Hashem from the Kohen Gadol?

In Tam U-Muad it says (pg. 15 here): "ויבא עד לירושלים ואין מכיר בו ויבא אל תוך המגדל בתוך הבאים והי' שם אבן שתי' והוא האבן אשר נסך יעקב אבינו ע"ה שמן על ראשה. ועל האבן ההיא הי' חקוק שם המפורש. ומי ש …
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Is it okay for Jewish people to read Narnia or Lord of the Rings?

At face value the Narnia books and movies don't seem to directly say anything about Christianity, even if the author did intend it. …
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Why is the Trinity considered polytheistic in traditional Jewish thought?

Let's stop and think for a moment: "Aquinas goes to great lengths" - if the trinity was pure monotheism, why would one have to go to great lengths to prove it was so? And this is consistent throughout …
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inscription on Chagall's "White Crucifixion"?

The ישו הנוצרי, Yeshu hanotzri (not Yeshua) part is Hebrew; the rest is Aramaic: מלכא דיהדאי, malkah d'Yahadai. Some more info can be found here.
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Does the Talmud say that Jesus writhes in excrement and Mary was a prostitute?

I would say "maybe" or "it depends" to both. In Gittin 56b-57a there's a story in which Onkelos bar Kalonikos, the nephew of Titus, wishes to convert to Judaism, but before that, consults three evil …
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