1. Structure of Avot -- 2. Avot, Wisdom, and Artistic Prose -- 3. Date and the Editor of Avot -- Excurses: Searching for the Hillel of Avot 2:4 -- 4. Cultural Horizons of the Patriarchate in the Early Third Century -- 5. Avot and the Second Sophistic -- 6. Graeco-Roman Literary Context for Avot -- 7. Avot in the Light of Classical Roman Jurisprudence -- 8. Avot's Chain of Transmission and Early Christian Parallels
Summary
In 3rd-century Palestine, the leading member of the rabbinic movement put together a wisdom treatise entitled 'Tractate Avot'. This book is a comprehensive effort to situate Avot within the context of the Graeco-Roman Near East, relating it to socio-political, literary and intellectual streams
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Includes the text of Avot in Hebrew with English translation
