Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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

Reviews

...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.
*N.R.M. de Lange, The Journal of Theological Studies*