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

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

Tropper, Amram

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Oriental Monographs

JudaismAncient History General

ISBN10: 019926712X
ISBN13: 9780199267125
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 20 2004
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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