Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography : Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Oriental Monographs
ISBN-10
019926712X
ISBN-13
9780199267125
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 18th, 2004
Print length
316 Pages
Weight
488 grams
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22.40 x 14.30 x 2.20 cms
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In third-century CE Palestine, the leading members of the rabbinic movement put together a treatise entitled Tractate Avot. With an effort to situate Avot within the socio-political and intellectual context of the Graeco-Roman Near East, this book probes comparable Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian sources.
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.
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