"So if it references Jesus Christ, when was this Talmud written?"
The Babylonian Talmud was written between 200AD to 400AD.
Talmudic rabbis call the Talmud the "oral Torah" and falsely claim that the teachings in the Babylonian Talmud were orally given to Moses on Mt. Sinai simultaneously with the written Torah. The rabbis also claim that the "oral Torah" was given orally because it is superior and more important than the written Torah. The Talmud teaches that studying the written Torah is like drinking water, and studying the Mishna (first part of the Talmud which enumerates the various laws of the Torah) is like drinking milk, but studying the Gemara (second part of the Talmud which includes commentaries on the Mishna, legends, and various myths). The Bayblonian Talmud is clearly defines the definitive dogmas that guides modern rabbinic Judaism----the Judaism that was reinvented after the destruction of the Second Temple.
You may ask, why the Talmud? After the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, the Second Temple was destroyed in 70AD. The destruction of the Temple also destroyed the ancient Levitical priesthood, the furniture of the Temple, the Ark of the Covenant which contained the tables of the Law, the genealogical tables, and in essence the destruction of the ancient Hebrew religion. With the destruction of the God-ordained Levitical priesthood and the Aaronic high priesthood, the Pharisees, Scribes and Sanhedrin needed to fill the vacuum left by the biblical Levitical leadership. The Pharisees and Scribes simply had NO biblical basis for assuming the leadership of the faction of the Jews who had rejected Christ (remember that a significant percentage of the Jews had accepted Christ and founded the Christian Church on the insturctions of Christ before his Ascension.)
The Pharisees, scribes and rabbis needed to invent a reason to justify their assumption of the theological leadership of the anti-Christ Jewish faction. This is when they invented the myth that an "ORAL TORAH" had been given to Moses at Mt. Sinai that was actually superior to the written or real Torah.
They also invented the myth that this "ORAL TORAH" had been passed on supernaturally from generation to generation to the Rabbis, Pharisees, and Scribes and right on to themselves. The reason, according to their myth, the "ORAL TORAH" had been passed on orally was because it was too holy to pass on in the written form. Their myth had a huge problem because they now needed to write it down convince the Jews that they had the authority to assume the spiritual leadership of anti-Jewry. So now we have the paradox of the written "ORAL TORAH". (G) |
