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Alfred Rosenberg

(see, among others, Paul) among the later Greeks was struck by
their lasciviousness and nothing repelled him more than the orgies
ofthe Dionysiac sect ofthe declining ancient world. Now, to Bacchus
the panther was an especially sacred animal; the Bacchus
worshippers slept on panther skins, the panther was portrayed on
Greek coins, etc. So this animal was to the Jew the "obscene" animal,
the symbol of lasciviousness in general. From this view was born
the following word-play: the Christians named Jesus the Son of the
Virgin (from the Greek Parthenos, Ben Parthena), from that the Jews
formed the contemptible Ben Panthera (son of the obscene animal).
Laible" 5 points to the fact that the hatred was directed less at Mary
as directly at the person of Jesus, and therefore the Ben (son) was
exposed to every insult.
Further, Christ is called the Fool, seducer of the people
(Bileam), and, as such, is, according to the Jewish view, the greatest
that ever arose in the midst of Israel, the magician who gathered
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secret drugs from Egypt and "tempted and seduced Israel".
On the occasion of his death, the Talmud calls Jesus simply
"the Hanged Man" and finds the gallows and pillory to be the
punishment he deserves. In 2. Thargum on Esther 7:9, God asks all
the trees if one could hang Haman on them; all refuse this request,
until the cedar proposes to hang him on its own gallows designed
for Mordechai. This latter God calls the "rise to the lecture hall of
Ben Pandera"" 8 This mockery of the person and doctrine of Jesus
placed in the mouth of God requires no commentary.
How far the hatred of Christ which, according to Laible,
"borders on madness" can go is seen in a narrative in which a
follower ofChrist, Jacob ofKephar Sekhania, to whom Rabbi Elieser
conveyed an answer that Christ had allegedly given to the question,
treated as very important by the Jews, whether one could build the
high priest's exit door with prostitutes' fees or whether this was
also a sacred place. It was that 'what comes from filth must again
turn into filth' (Micha 1:7) and pleased the rabbi very much. This
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Jesus Christus im Talmud, Berlin, 1891. [Heinrich Laible was a theologian in
Rothenburg.]
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Sanhedrin 43 a.
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[Cf. Luke 2:46, where Christ debates with the rabbis in the temple]
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