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

ISBN-13: 9780199267125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str.

Amram Tropper

Opis

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.

Recenzje

...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.

O autorze

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