Jesus in the Talmud

There are several passages in the Talmud which are believed by some scholars to be references to Jesus. The name used in the Talmud is Yeshu, the Aramaic vocalization (although not spelling) of the Hebrew name Yeshua.
Most Talmudic stories which figure around an individual named Yeshu are framed in time periods which do not align with the scholarly consensus of Jesus' lifetime, with chronological discrepancies sometimes amounting to as much as a century before or after the accepted dates of Jesus' birth and death. The apparent multiplicity of Yeshus within the text has been used to defend the Talmud against Christian accusations of blaspheming Jesus since at least the 13th Century.