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Zusatztext ...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. Informationen zum Autor 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 JewishHistory Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
