What the Talmud says about Jesus.
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Its a collection of essays by rabbis disagreeing with each other on one level, its not a holy book at all. But on a deeper level its a horror, Martin Luther read it to see what it said and was so shocked that he wrote a whole book about how the Jews were monsters.
There is a larger context of his general frustration in trying to convert Jews to protestantism in that period. He started off as sympathetic only because he believed that if the Jews were to know the gospel, many would convert. He misinterpreted some passages like Jesus was the son of a whore, with the term mamzer, but it has a more nuanced meaning of someone born with a jewish father and non-jewish mother.
God is Jewish and Mary was a goy?
No it just means Mary was a goy. Luther said Jews "do not stop blaspheming our Lord Christ, calling the Virgin Mary a whore, Christ, a bastard". Mamzer has it's roots in Jewish law, which in general is against integration with other cultures where we don't consider someone Jewish if the mother isn't Jewish - it's the opposite if the Mother is Jewish and the Father isn't. This stems from the resistance to Hellenization earlier from the Greeks that led to the Maccabean revolt. It was the lack of integration/conversion that was concerning for Luther.