Amram Tropper

Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography

Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780199267125
• ISBN-10: 019926712X
• Artikelnr.: 26624469

Autorenporträt

Amram Tropper is a Mandel Scholar at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a lecturer in the university's department of Jewish History

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Structure of Avot
2: Avot, Wisdom, and Artistic Prose
3: The Date and the Editor of Avot
4: The Cultural Horizons of the Patriarchate in the Early Third Century
5: Avot and the Second Sophistic
6: The Graeco-Roman Literary Context for Avot
7: Avot in the lgiht of Classical Roman Jursiprudence
8: Avot's Chain of Transmission and Early Christian Parallels
Conclusion