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Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography - Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East (Hardcover, New)
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Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography - Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Oriental Monographs
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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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