Summaries
Summary of Overview
Basic introduction to history and structure of the Talmud.
Summary of King David The Paedophile
Chapter 1 sets out the issues surrounding the Talmud and the difficulties arising from exploring it and the method and authoritative sources used.
Chapter 2 sets out the starting point using Dr. Brown's objections in his Christian Antisemitism book.
Chapter 3 defines the pivotal term "minor" (girls and boys) as the rabbis use it throughout rabbinic literature.
Chapter 4 addresses the title of this work, King David the Paedophile, by highlighting a little-known fact about how the rabbis in the Talmud used their abaci to determine the age of Bathsheba when King David "lay with her". The disputed age of Rebecca when Isaac married her is also addressed using a modern day book written for Jewish children.
Chapter 5 discloses the Talmudic discussions, and laws, applicable to girls younger than 3 years old who have been violated.
Chapter 6 explores the rabbinic decree that girls 12 and half years and below are under the authority of either their fathers, or if fatherless, their mother and brothers, with respect to whom they will be married.
Chapter 7 highlights the Talmud rabbis' consternation with the cause of vaginal bleeding in minor girls and her consequent degree of impurity.
Chapter 8 demonstrates the reality of an institution called "mi'un" which is the right for a married minor girl to "refuse" her husband under various circumstances and conditions.
Chapter 9 illustrates the degrees and seriousness of the rape and seduction of minor girls and the degrees of liability and non-liability of the perpetrator.
Chapter 10 addresses the precarious status of Gentile and captive minor girls with respect to their "rights" as victims of rape and/or virginal qualification for any future marriage.
Chapter 11 focuses on the "go to" sentence Talmud apologists repeatedly use from the Tractate Kiddushin, folio 41a, which declares it is "not proper" for a father to "betroth his minor daughter".
Chapter 12 addresses married minor boys, their de-flowering prowess depending on their being above or below the age of 9, and the degree of punishment, or not, for adult sodomizers of minor boys depending on the age of the victim.
Chapter 13 provides selected quotes from 20th and 21st century secondary Jewish sources discussing the halacha (Judaic laws) concerning the marriage of minors and the extent of the practice of minor marriage in Jewish communities throughout history from the time the Talmud was written to the early 20th century.
Chapter 14 briefly shows Jews resisting child abuse and paedophilia in modern times.
Chapter 15 I will conclude the evidence presented, my personal thoughts, advice and warnings.
Appendix 1: Full Talmud text of rabbis discussing child sex and pregnancy concerning a Gentile girl called Yustina.
Appendix 2: Full Talmud text where the rabbis discuss the young age of some Biblical characters when they became fathers or mothers, including 6 year old Bathsheba.
Appendix 3: Selection of over 150 Talmud quotes of laws, rules and instructions constructed by the rabbis to manage the institution of the marriage of minor girls and boys. Links provided to aid further study.
Appendix 4: Selection of over 100 quotes from the law code of Rabbi Maimonides called Mishneh Torah validating the correct understanding of the Talmud statements regarding marriage and sex with pre-pubescent children. Links provided to aid further study.
Appendix 5: Selection of over 80 quotes from the law code of Rabbi Karo called Shulchan Aruch validating the correct understanding of the Talmud statements regarding marriage and sex with pre-pubescent children. Links provided to aid further study.
Summary of Talmud Soundbite #1
Exploring the frequent claim the Talmud says Gentiles who study the Talmud/Torah deserve death. Presenting Talmud apologists arguements against the claim and my conclusion as to their validity and comprehensiveness in light of contemporary Rabbinic opinion.
Summary of Talmud Soundbite #2
Is Elazar ben Durdayya really a rabbi and talmudic scholar who had a compulsive obsession for prostitutes? Plus: Does Jesus appear in the same Abodah Zorah 17a folio? This soundbite provides evidence answering these questions.
