Jesus and the Talmudic Debate

How the Rabbis Tested the Nazarene

De: James Hibbs Farris

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Most Christians know Jesus argued with the Pharisees. Very few know what those arguments actually were — or how the rabbis themselves would have tested his claims.

Jesus and the Talmudic Debate: How the Rabbis Tested the Nazarene takes you into the beit midrash — the rabbinic study hall — and asks a hard question: What happens when the Nazarene argues with the rabbis at their own level, using their own rules?

James Hibbs Farris reconstructs twelve case files where the Gospels and the Talmud meet head-on: authority, Sabbath, divorce, purity, prayer, identity, the trial, and the silence. Each chapter follows the structure of a classic Talmudic debate — the academy's position, Jesus' position, the counter-challenge, and where the argument stands today.

Along the way you'll discover why Jesus' lack of rabbinic ordination was such a serious problem, how later Jewish law sometimes moved in his direction, and why the Sanhedrin that judged him failed its own legal standards.

This is not a polemic against Judaism or an apologetic for Christianity. It lets both sides speak at full strength, treats the Pharisees as serious theologians, and reads Jesus as a first-century Jewish teacher who knows the tradition from the inside.

It doesn't hand you a verdict. It hands you the transcript — and trusts you to think.

Step into the beit midrash. The debate is still open.