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The Mishna is a Jewish sacred text mostly dealing with ritualistic obligations and legal implications thereof, as a sort of comprehensive interpretation to the laws of the written Torah. Among the many tractates of the Mishna, Avot (“ancestors”) is special – it is the only tractate that does not deal with laws at all, but instead tells stories about leading rabbis in the time between the late Biblical period (5th-4th century BCE) and the Bar Kokhba Revolt (2nd Century CE). The tractate mostly includes quotes from these rabbis involving the way a person should live their life. The first paragraph depicts the tradition chain from Moses to the rabbis.
Die Lektüreübung zum Mischna-Traktat Avot, zu der neben den gängigen Textausgaben auch die handschriftliche Tradition herangezogen werden soll, wird zweisprachig (deutsch/englisch) gehalten. |
