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

Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography: Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199267125)

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

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

$310.00
Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography: Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East by Tropper, Amram

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

$310.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 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.

Author: Amram Tropper
ISBN-10: 019926712X
ISBN-13: 9780199267125
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2004
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d
By Amram Tropper
By Amram Tropper
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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.

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