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Avot, a tractate in the Mishnah (c. 220 CE), is the single most studied and commented upon Jewish text outside the Hebrew Bible. Commonly published as a stand-alone volume with the title Pirke Avot (""Chapters of the Fathers"" or ""Ethics of the Fathers""), Avot is also included in Jewish prayer books to encourage group and home study in every form of Judaism. A number of scholarly studies over the past three decades have reconceptualized the historical purpose and stylistic character of tractate Avot, which is unlike any other in the Mishnah. Some scholars have recognized that Avot's content reflects the ideological positions of an elitist fellowship originally formed according to paradigms established by Greco-Roman schools of philosophy. Subversive Principles furthers the argument that Avot was composed to facilitate the formation of such a fellowship by engaging the analytical insights of Pierre Bourdieu regarding symbolic language and other theorists elucidating the role of exchange theory in religions. This volume explores an ethics of reading and the matter of historical relativism as such concerns influence the historical-critical interpretation of a canonical text.

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Book category Books in German Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik Religion/Theologie Religion/Theologie - Allgemeines

• Full title: Subversive Principles
• Author: David H. Aaron
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560
• EAN: 9798385205714
• ID: 46852571
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Weight: 801 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. October 2024

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