Saying of the desert fathers, Sayings of the rabbinic fathers: Avot deRabbi Natan and the Apophthegmata Patrum

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Abstract

In this article I wish to present a textual comparison between paragraphs in the rabbinic Avot deRabbi Natan and in the Apophthegmata Patrum, or Sayings of the Desert Fathers. I will argue that these passages in the two anthologies, rabbinic and Christian-monastic, share interesting features which will repay careful literary analysis. In this specific case, the comparison to the Christianmonastic text helps underline the textual process that shaped the two versions of the rabbinic text, a process that without this comparison would be difficult to reconstruct.1

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)243-259
Number of pages17
JournalZeitschrift fur Antikes Christentum
Volume20
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Aug 2016

Keywords

  • Apophthegmata Patrum
  • Avot deRabbi Natan
  • Rabbi Akiva
  • Sayings of the Desert Fathers
  • midrash
  • rabbinics

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Classics
  • History
  • Religious studies

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