Literary text: BL Or. 6197.7–8 + T-S NS 298.55 + T-S 8Ka7.4

Literary text BL Or. 6197.7–8 + T-S NS 298.55 + T-S 8Ka7.4

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BL Or. 6197.7–8 + T-S NS 298.55 + T-S 8Ka7.4
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Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, JA1 in Bohak's edition, Judaeo–Arabic translation, "Pilate" recension), final portion of the text on BL Or. 6197.7 (through passage 9.5); read consecutively with T-S NS 298.55 (PGPID 41697) and T-S 8 Ka 7.4 (PGPID 41698) as a single irregular quire; followed on BL Or. 6197.8 by a short Hebrew acrostic piyyut beginning בש(ם) רחמ(נא) נתח(יל) זה השבח, 'In the Name of the Merciful One, we shall begin this praise', and a viddui (confession prayer) by Nissi al-Nahrwani (Baghdad, early tenth century), titled וידוי לנהרואני ז' צ' ל, 'A confession prayer by Nahrwani, may the memory of the righteous be for a blessing', beginning רבון כל העולמים קודם כל דבר, 'Master of all the universe, before any thing'. (Information from Gideon Bohak, The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu), 15–19.)

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BL Or. 6197.7–8 recto

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Gideon Bohak, The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu): The 'Authentic' Jewish Protocols of the Trial of Jesus (Open Book Publishers, 2026).

BL Or. 6197.7r (ninth section in join)

  1. פלמא כתר אלכלאם אסתדעא [אלמ]ל֯ך ב[י]ה֯ו֯דה
  2. אלגנן פקאללה אלרגל אלדי צלבתה איש עמלת בה. 
  3. פקאל ד֯פ֯נ֯ת֯ה פי א֯ל֯ג֯נ֯[א]ן֯ פקאל לה אלמלך איש ה֯דה אלשנאע
  4. אלמסמ[ועה פקאל] לה איוה אלמלך אן ישו אלמלעון כאן יעלם
  5. [בא]ן֯ [מכ]ת֯ו֯ב פי אלתורה אן אל מצלוב לתב֯י[ת] נ֯בילתה עלי
  6. אלכשבה פאגר אצחאבה וקאל להם אן֯ גית֯ם גדא ולם
  7. תגדוני עלי אלצליב אעלמו אני קד צ'עדת אלי [אלס]מא. פקאל אלמלך
  8. ליהודה אלגנאן אנבשה ואחצרה. פנבשה יהודה אלגנאן ושד
  9. פי רגלה חבל וגרה פי אסו֯אק טבריה ונוד֯י עליה הדה ישו
  10. א֯ל֯מארק אלדינכת בטאעת אללה פאערפוה. בעץ֯ אצחאבה
  11. אמנו בדלך ובעצהם לא יאמן. תם קאל אל[מ]לך ליהודה
  12. [כ]מא ראית אלצואב פי דפנך לה פי אלגנאך  אדפנ֯[ה] מע֯ [סא]י[ר]
  13. אל אמואת. פפעל דלך. ויום ישו כאן י"ד פי ניסן ויום אן נ֯ו֯ב֯ש֯
  14. א֯ו גר פי אלאסואק טבריה כאן כ"ב פי ניסן. ואלדי אנתקם מן ישו
  15. [ה]וא ינתקם מן אלכפאר ומן עובאד אל אותאן. ואלמלך טברינוס
Gideon Bohak, The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu): The 'Authentic' Jewish Protocols of the Trial of Jesus (Open Book Publishers, 2026).

BL Or. 6197.7r (ninth section in join)

  1. When the word had spread, [the ki]ng summoned Yehudah

  2. he gardener and said to him: “The man whom you (sg.) have crucified—what did you do with him?”

  3. And he (i.e., Yehudah) said: “I buried him in the garden.” And the king said to him: “What is this calumny

  4. that is hea[rd?” And he said] to him: “Oh king, the cursed Yeshu knew

  5. [that it is wr]itten in the Torah that one who is crucified—‘Do not let his corpse remain overnight on

  6. the tree’, and he deceived his followers and said to them: ‘If you come tomorrow and do not

  7. find me on the cross, know that I ascended to [Heav]en’.” And the king said

  8. to Yehudah the gardener: “Dig him out and bring him.” Yehudah the gardener dug him out and fastened

  9. a rope to his leg and dragged him through the markets of Tiberias. And it was proclaimed about him: “This is Yeshu

  10. the heretic who violated God’s will—recognise him!” Some of his followers

  11. believed it (i.e., that it is the body of Yeshu) and some of them did not believe. Then the king said to Yehudah:

  12. “[Just] as you saw fit when burying him in the garden, bury him with the [rest of?]

  13. the dead.” And he (i.e., Yehudah) did so. The day of Yeshu was the fourteenth of Nisan, and the day Yeshu was dug out

  14. dragged through the markets of Tiberias was the twenty-second of Nisan. He who took revenge upon Yeshu—

  15. He will take revenge upon the heretics and the worshipers of idols. King Tiberinus

BL Or. 6197.7–8 verso

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BL Or. 6197.7r (tenth section in join)

  1. קיסר ופלטוס אלקאיד ויהושוע בן פרחיה

  2. ומרינוס אלשיך אלכביר ויהודה אלגנאן וגמיע אלמ֯ח֯פל

  3. חצרו קתל [י]שו וצלבה וגרה פי אלאסוא֯[ק] ט֯בריה. כדאך

  4. יהלכו כל אעדא אללה וישרק נור מחביה[ כ]אשראק

  5. נור אלשמס בקותה. תם גזר דין ישו אלמארק

  6. כן יובדו כל אויביך י"י אשריך ישראל מי כמוך

  7. עם֯ נושע בי"י.

BL Or. 6197.7r (tenth section in join)

  1. Caesar, and Pelatus the governor, and Yehoshuʿa ben Peraḥiah,

  2. and Marinus the great elder, and Yehudah the gardener and the whole congregation

  3. were present at the execution and crucifixion of Yeshu and his being dragged through the markets of Tiberias. “Thus

  4. may all God’s enemies perish, and the light of his friends shine [    ] like the shining

  5. of the light of the sun in its strength.” Here ends The Sentencing of Yeshu the Heretic.

  6. “Thus may all your enemies, Lord, perish” etc. “Happy are you, Israel; who is like you—

  7. a people saved by the Lord.”

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