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Does the Talmud Contain a Hidden Anti-Epicurean Treatise?
Some disjointed aphorisms may be a polemic against a popular philosophy.
Tractate Avot (“Fathers”) is unique within the Talmud in that it is composed of a series of rabbinic moral teachings and aphorisms without any discussion of Jewish law. While the first two chapters follow a clear chronological order, moving from teacher to disciple, from Moses until the end of the 2nd century CE, the fifth and final chapter begins by listing things of which there are ten, then things of which there are seven, and so on. As for the third and fourth chapters, they jump from one sage to the next in little discernible order.
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Does the Talmud Contain a Hidden Anti-Epicurean Treatise?
Some disjointed aphorisms may be a polemic against a popular philosophy.