Pirke Avot - Milestone Documents

Pirke Avot

( ca. 200 ) Commentary by Lieve Teugels, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Danby, Herbert. The Mishnah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Kravitz, Leonard, and Kerry M. Olitzky. Pirke Avot:A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics. New York: UAHC Press, 1993.
Lerner, M. B. “The Tractate Avot.” In The Literature of the Sages—Part One: Oral Torah, Halakha, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud, External Tractates, ed. Shmuel Safrai. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.
Pies, Ronald W. The Ethics of the Sages: An Interfaith Commentary of Pirkei Avot. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
Strack, H. L., and Günter Stemberger. Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash, trans. and ed. Markus Bockmuehl. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996.

“The Book of Principles: The Ethical Classic Pirkei Avot.” Jewish Institute for Youth and Family Web site. http://mentsh.com/pirkei_avot.html
“Pirkei Avot: Ethics of Our Fathers.” My Jewish Learning Web site. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/texts/Rabbinics/Talmud/Mishnah/Seder_Nezikin_Damages_/ Pirkei_Avot.shtml

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