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- ↑ Berger, D. Jewish history and Jewish memory: essays in honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi p33 Yosef Hayim , Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron - 1998 p33 "Now, if his argument that the Jesus of the boiling excrement is not the Talmud's Jesus of Nazareth still stands, then R. Yehiel has not two Jesuses but three, two of whom came from Nazareth, and this is in fact strongly implied in the .. Whatever one thinks of the sincerity of the multiple Jesus theory, R. Yehiel found a way to neutralize some dangerous ... In the fourteenth century, Moses ha-Kohen of Tordesillas made much stronger use of the theory of the two Jesuses in defending Judaism and the Talmud against renewed attack. For Moses, the lack of identity between the Talmud's Jesus and ... ." p49 "This discussion makes it perfectly clear that Duran gave no credence to a theory of two Jesuses"
- ↑ Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox Marc B. Shapiro - 2006 The contemporary haredi historian Nosson Dovid Rabinowich is another interesting case. In his book Binu Shenot Dor va-Dor, published with the haskamot of, among others, Rabbis Moses Feinstein, Ovadiah Yosef, Isaac Hutner and Schneur ...
- ↑ "Rabbi Arrested After Trying to Lure Teenage Girl (Published 2013)". The New York Times. 2013-02-15. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-10-12.
- 1 2 3 Dan Rabinowitz, Plagiarism II (Talmudic Terminology)
- ↑ "Musings of a Jewish Bookseller: An Uncensored Plagiarized copy of Talmudic Terminology by Nosson Dovid Rabinowich Ironicly [sic] inscribed to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef". 28 September 2014.
- ↑ Rabbi Dr. Marc Shapiro asserts that the haskamot were omitted once "the scandal broke"... "since they praise Rabinowich for producing a book which he didn't write" (ibid.).
- ↑ The first edition of Introduction to the Talmud by Moses Mielziner is available at https://books.google.com/books?id=0yMVAAAAYAAJ and available for download in PDF format.
- ↑ How do we know this?: Midrash and the fragmentation of modern Judaism p357 Jay Michael Harris - 1995 bibliography Rabinovich, Natan David ben Yehudah Leyb. Binu Shenot Dor va-Dor. Jerusalem: Feldheim, 1984
- ↑ LC Catalog - No Connections Available. LCCN 91826638.
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