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THE FATHERS ACCORDING TO RABBI NATHAN STUDIES IN JUDAISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY EDITED BY JACOB NEUSNER VOLUME ELEVEN THE FATHERS ACCORDING TO RABBI NATHAN LEIDEN E. J. BRILL 1975 THE FATHERS ACCORDING TO RABBI NATHAN (ABOT DE RABBI NATHAN) VERSION B A TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY ANTHONY J. SALDARINI, S.J. LEIDEN E. J. BRILL 1975 ISBN 90 04 04294 6 Copyright 1975 by E. J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or translated in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche or any other means without written permission from the publisher PRINTED IN BELGIUM IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER HARRIET BYRNE SALDARINI 1906-1973 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface IX List of Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 The Translation 1 Manuscripts 1 The Commentary 3 The OveraU Character of ARNB 4 Author 6 Mode of Composition 8 Language H Date 12 Place I6 Translation 19 Appendix I 303 Appendix II 306 Bibliography 311 Indices 318 PREFACE The translation of A bot de Rabbi Nathan, Version B, presented here will hopefully open up another Tannaitic text to a wide range of readers who do not read Mishnaic Hebrew. For the Hebraist the trans­ lation is an interpretation of a text which has been seldom studied in itself and distinctly from the traditional version of A bot de Rabbi Nathan. The commentary will more often than not, open up matters for further study, rather than settle the many knotty problems con­ nected with A bot de Rabbi Nathan. The problem which needs the most intensive study is, of course, the relationship of the two versions of A bot de Rabbi Nathan to one another and to Pirke Abot. Much data and many comments on this problem are offered in the commentary but a synthetic study of the problem requires a separate monograph. The work presented here was submitted in a slightly altered form to Yale University in candidacy for the PhD degree. I wish to thank first all those at Yale who helped and encouraged me during my years there. My thanks also to the Library of the Jewish Theological Semi­ nary of America, the Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma, Italy for providing me promptly with copies of manuscript materials. Professor Jacob Neusner of Brown University, the editor of this series, kindly accepted this work for publication and provided me with practical advice and encouragement. To him and also to Loyola University, the Society of Jesus of New England, The Max Richter Foundation, Providence, Rhode Island and Roger L. Saldarini go thanks for contributing to part of the printing costs of this volume. Finally, I thank Professor Judah Goldin, now of the University of Pennsylvania, who directed my research and consistently provided me with valuable advice and information. He has discussed problems with me, read my manuscript and offered me dozens of suggestions, corrections and references. With his guidance and example I have come to love the study of these texts. Anthony J. Saldarini, S.J. New Orleans, Louisiana September 18, 1973

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