Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Peter Schäfer: Introduction; Michael Sokoloff: The Date and Provenance of the Aramaic Toledot Yeshu on the Basis of Aramaic Dialectology; The Publication of the Aramaic Texts; Previous Discussions of the Aramaic Language of the Texts; Linguistic Analysis of the Vocabulary of TY; 1. Morphology; 2. Syntax; 3. Vocabulary; Conclusions; Peter Schäfer: Agobard's and Amulo's Toledot Yeshu; Agobard; Amulo; William Horbury: The Strasbourg Text of the Toledot; 1.; 2.; 3.; Adina M. Yoffie: Observations on the Huldreich Manuscripts of the Toledot Yeshu.

The Manuscript Evidence and Implications for AuthorshipPreliminary Efforts at Dating the Huldreich; The Uniqueness of the Huldreich: Rewriting Old Traditions; Conclusion; Michael Stanislawski: A Preliminary Study of a Yiddish "Life of Jesus" (Toledot Yeshu): JTS Ms. 2211; 1. The editor's knowledge and citation of different narrative traditions.; 2. Talmud and trial of Jesus.; 3. Historical inaccuracy.; 4. Linguistic markers of the distinctions between Jews and Gentiles.; 5. Halachah.; 6. Attitude to Kabbalah.; 7. Ashkenization.; 8. Differences in narrative itself.; 9. Portrayal of Mary.

Pierluigi Piovanelli: The Toledot Yeshu and Christian Apocryphal Literature: The Formative YearsThe Discovery of a Strange Jewish Anti-Gospel in 1985; The Rediscovery of a Strange Christian Gospel in 1998; The Rediscovery of a Strange Gnostic Gospel in 2006-07; Here and now: The Absence of a Strange Jewish Christian Gospel; Eli Yassif: Toledot Yeshu: Folk-Narrative as Polemics and Self Criticism; Origin; Toledot Yeshu as a Volksbuch; From Victim to Villain; The Turning Point; Charisma and Polemics; The Ineffable Name; From Polemics to Self-criticism.

Philip Alexander: The Toledot Yeshu in the Context of Jewish-Muslim DebateThe Toledot Yeshu and the Muslim World; Copies of the Toledot from the Muslim world; The Toledot and the Christian Gospel in the Muslim world; The Toledot Yeshu and the Muslim "Gospel"; Summary and Conclusions; Sarit Kattan Gribetz: Hanged and Crucified: The Book of Esther and Toledot Yeshu; Introduction; Toledot Yeshu and the Book of Esther; Purim and Anti-Christianity; Toledot Yeshu as Megillah; Conclusion; Michael Meerson: Meaningful Nonsense: A Study of Details in Toledot Yeshu; The Fork; The Flower; The Water.

Ora Limor and Israel Jacob Yuval: Judas Iscariot: Revealer of the Hidden TruthSefer Toledot Yeshu; The Burial; The Curse; The Joke; The Pogrom; The Legend of the Finding of the True Cross; The Biography of Judas in the Golden Legend; Epilogue: Judah, Jew, and Israel; John Gager: Simon Peter, Founder of Christianity or Saviour of Israel?; Appendix: Dating Issues; Conclusions; Galit Hasan-Rokem: Polymorphic Helena
Toledot Yeshu as a Palimpsest of Religious Narratives and Identities; Yaacov Deutsch: The Second Life of the Life of Jesus: Christian Reception of Toledot Yeshu.