“Subversive Principles: Reflections on Mishnah Avot 1 & 2 (Pickwick Publications, 2024),"
by Rabbi David H. Aaron, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew Bible and History of Interpretation
This work, by Rabbi David H. Aaron, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew Bible and History of Interpretation, is an analysis of the exchange system that is at the foundation of Avot’s worldview, based on the concept of symbolic language developed by Piere Bourdieu. It also considers the ethics of the tractate within an argument against historical relativism.