Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography

Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-926712-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 579 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tropper, Amram

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The Structure of Avot

- 2: Avot, Wisdom, and Artistic Prose

- 3: The Date and the Editor of Avot

- 4: The Cultural Horizons of the Patriarchate in the Early Third Century

- 5: Avot and the Second Sophistic

- 6: The Graeco-Roman Literary Context for Avot

- 7: Avot in the lgiht of Classical Roman Jursiprudence

- 8: Avot's Chain of Transmission and Early Christian Parallels

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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