Editing Talmud (section)

===Contemporary accusations===
The Internet is another source of criticism of the Talmud.<ref name=Internet /> The [[Anti-Defamation League]]'s report on this topic states that antisemitic critics of the Talmud frequently use erroneous translations or selective quotations in order to distort the meaning of the Talmud's text, and sometimes fabricate passages. In addition, the critics rarely provide the full context of the quotations and fail to provide contextual information about the culture that the Talmud was composed in, nearly 2,000 years ago.<ref name="ADL">{{cite press release
 |publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]]
 |date=February 2003
 |title=The Talmud in Anti-Semitic Polemics
 |url=http://www.adl.org/presrele/asus_12/the_talmud.pdf
 |access-date=September 16, 2010
 |quote=By selectively citing various passages from the Talmud and [[Midrash]], polemicists have sought to demonstrate that Judaism espouses hatred for non-Jews (and specifically for Christians), and promotes obscenity, sexual perversion, and other immoral behavior. To make these passages serve their purposes, these polemicists frequently mistranslate them or cite them out of context (wholesale fabrication of passages is not unknown)....In distorting the normative meanings of rabbinic texts, anti-Talmud writers frequently remove passages from their textual and historical contexts. Even when they present their citations accurately, they judge the passages based on contemporary moral standards, ignoring the fact that the majority of these passages were composed close to two thousand years ago by people living in cultures radically different from our own. They are thus able to ignore Judaism's long history of social progress and paint it instead as a primitive and parochial religion. Those who attack the Talmud frequently cite ancient rabbinic sources without noting subsequent developments in Jewish thought, and without making a good-faith effort to consult with contemporary Jewish authorities who can explain the role of these sources in normative Jewish thought and practice.
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805220714/http://www.adl.org/presrele/asus_12/the_talmud.pdf
 |archive-date=August 5, 2010
}}
</ref>

One such example concerns the line: "If a Jew be called upon to explain any part of the rabbinic books, he ought to give only a false explanation. One who transgresses this commandment will be put to death." This is alleged to be a quote from a book titled ''Libbre David'' (alternatively ''Livore David''{{hsp}}). No such book exists in the Talmud or elsewhere.<ref>{{cite book
  |last=Kominsky |first=Morris |author-link=Morris Kominsky
  |title=The hoaxers: plain liars, fancy liars, and damned liars|date=1970 |publisher=Branden Press
  |location=Boston |isbn=978-08283-1288-2 |lccn=76109134 |pages=169–176
  |url=http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/van_hyning.html
|quote=Libbre David 37. This is a complete fabrication. No such book exists in the Talmud or in the entire Jewish literature.}}</ref> The title is assumed to be a corruption of ''Dibre David'', a work published in 1671.<ref>{{cite book|title=Israel and the New World Order|author=Andrew J. Hurley|publisher=Fithian Press|location=Foundation for a New World Order, Santa Barbara
|year=1991 |isbn=978-09318-3299-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/israelnewworldor00hurl}}</ref> Reference to the quote is found in an early [[Holocaust denial]] book, ''The Six Million Reconsidered'' by William Grimstad.<ref>The Six Million Reconsidered: A Special Report by the Committee for Truth in History, p. 16 [[Historical Review Press]], 1979</ref>