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 JewishHistory

...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.

• 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

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 JewishHistory

...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.

• 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