Crossword-Solution: ABOT 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

CONTENTS Even a superficial reading of _Abot_ will bring home to one the fact that it is made up of various strata.

LANGUAGE The language of _Abot_ is easy Mishnaic Hebrew, with portions of four verses (I, 13; II, 7; V, 25, and V, 26) in Aramaic, which is closely related to Hebrew.

Into this enlarged kernel of pithy sayings of the oldest authorities, which may be characterized as the _Abot of Rabbi Akiba_, later _Tannaim_--Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, and others--interpolated additional sayings of the afore-mentioned Rabbis, and also typical utterances of their disciples, and of other well-known teachers.

This accounts for the presence in _Abot_ of the body of maxims of the six generations of the school of Hillel, designated above as section B 1, and which was very properly introduce after the aphorisms of Hillel and of his contemporary, Shammai.

Proof of the fact that section B is an addition is that in the _Abot de-Rabbi Natan_--which, as has been said above, is based on an older version of _Abot_ (14)--the sayings of Jochanan ben Zakkai follow immediately upon those of Shammai.