 Finally, in 1970 he was made an honorary fellow of the "Deutsche Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas" ("German association for research on Palestine").He worked with Wilhelm Schneemelcher in revisions of the Hennecke-Schneemelcher collection of New Testament Apocrypha.Jeremias took a stand on the passages generally regarded as relating to Jesus in the Talmud which supported medieval rabbinical defences that the "Yeshu" the deceiver mentioned in the Talmud was a different Jesus from the Jesus of Christianity.