Toledot Yeshu (""תולדות ישו "The Biography of Jesus") is the medieval Jewish version of the story of Jesus from an anti-Christian perspective. The book uses the name Yeshu, a name for Jesus that appears in some early rabbinic literature, and the title is translated as Book of the Life of Jesus, Generations of Jesus or The Life of Jesus. It has been called the counter-gospel, anti-gospel, and anti-evangel. The Toledot Yeshu is popular polemic against Jesus "run wild". It ascribes to Jesus an illegitimate birth, magic powers, and a shameful death. Its main point is that "Jesus is a seducer and heretic."