Innumerable important details in the Gospels find, moreover, their commentary in the Talmud.

The vast Latin collections of Lightfoot, Schoettgen, Buxtorf, and Otho contained already a mass of information on this point.

I have imposed on myself the task of verifying in the original all the citations which I have admitted, without a single exception.

The assistance which has been given me for this part of my task by a learned Israelite, M.Neubauer, well versed in Talmudic literature, has enabled me to go further, and to clear up the most intricate parts of my subject by new researches.
The distinction of epochs is here most important, the compilation of the Talmud extending from the year 200 to about the year 500.

We have brought to it as much discernment as is possible in the actual state of these studies.