Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography
Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 March 2004
- ISBN 9780199267125
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 224x143x22 mm
- Weight 555 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In third-century CE Palestine, the leading member of the rabbinic movement put together a highly popular wisdom treatise entitled Tractate Avot. Though Avot has inspired hundreds of commentaries, this book marks the first comprehensive effort to situate Avot within the socio-political and intellectual context of the Graeco-Roman Near East. Probing comparable Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian sources, Amram Tropper interprets Avot in light of the local Jewish context as well as the ambient cultural atmosphere of the contemporary Near East.
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In third-century CE Palestine, the leading member of the rabbinic movement put together a highly popular wisdom treatise entitled Tractate Avot. Though Avot has inspired hundreds of commentaries, this book marks the first comprehensive effort to situate Avot within the context of the Graeco-Roman Near East. Following his novel interpretation of Avot, Amram Tropper relates the text to ancient Jewish literary paradigms as well as to relevant socio-political, literary, and intellectual streams of the contemporary Near East. Through comparisons to ancient wisdom literature, the Second Sophistic, Greek and Christian historiography, contemporary collections of sayings, and classical Roman jurisprudence, Tropper interprets Avot in light of the local Jewish context as well as the ambient cultural atmosphere of the contemporary Near East.
...is well documented and carefully argued...a very useful contribution to the literature on Avot, particularly in making available to English readers a good deal of scholarship published in Hebrew.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Structure of Avot
Avot, Wisdom, and Artistic Prose
The Date and the Editor of Avot
The Cultural Horizons of the Patriarchate in the Early Third Century
Avot and the Second Sophistic
The Graeco-Roman Literary Context for Avot
Avot in the lgiht of Classical Roman Jursiprudence
Avot's Chain of Transmission and Early Christian Parallels
Conclusion
