Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Talmud, a central text of Rabbinic Judaism, contains stories that some scholars have concluded are references to Jesus, regarded as the Messiah of Christianity. During the disputations in the Middle Ages, advocates for the Christian church alleged that the Talmud contained insulting references to Jesus and his mother, Mary. Jewish apologists during the disputations denied that the references were to Jesus, and claimed they referred to other individuals. The disputations led to many of the references being removed (censored) from subsequent editions of the Talmud. In the modern era, Travers Herford, a Christian scholar, concluded that the references did not provide evidence of Jesus as a historical individual, but instead were non-historical oral traditions which circulated among Jews.