Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography: Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East

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.


Author: Amram Tropper
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/20/2004
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780199267125

About the Author

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.

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