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Norman Karol Gottwald (born 1926) is an American Marxist biblical scholar and political activist.

His most influential work is The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 B.C.E. (1979). In it he employed a sociological approach to the study of early Israelite religion and politics. Gottwald proposed Israelites emerged as local Canaanite peasants sought to overthrow the corrupt regimes they lived in. Their action was fueled by a liberating faith in the deity Yahweh.[1] They dislocated to the previously unsettled Judean hills in order to form a more equal community. These ideals are reflected in the legendary stories of the Pentateuch, Joshua and Judges.[2]

Bibliography

Authored books

  • Studies in the Book of Lamentations. Studies in Biblical Theology 14. London: SCM, 1954. OCLC 925389 Reprinted, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010. OCLC 503307711 (orig. PhD Thesis, Columbia University, 1953)
  • A Light to the Nations: An Introduction to the Old Testament. New York: Harper, 1959. Reprinted, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009. OCLC 361062
  • All the Kingdoms of the Earth: Israelite Prophecy and International Relations in the Ancient Near East. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. OCLC 373937 Reprinted, Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007. OCLC 838050718
  • The Church Unbound: A Human Church in a Human World. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1967. OCLC 1318974
  • The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 B.C.E.. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1979. OCLC 4503604
  • The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-literary Introduction. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985. OCLC 11549097
  • The Hebrew Bible in Its Social World and in Ours. SBL Semeia Studies. Atlanta: Scholars, 1993. OCLC 27770883
  • with Laura Lagerquist-Gottald. Pentecost 3. Proclamation 6: Interpreting the Lessons of the Church Year. Series B. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996. OCLC 36176433
  • The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 B.C.E.. Reprinted, with a new Preface. Biblical Seminar 66. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1999. OCLC 893336470
  • The Politics of Ancient Israel. Library of Ancient Israel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001. OCLC 44469096
  • The Hebrew Bible: A Brief Socio-literary Introduction. Philadelphia: Fortress, 2008. OCLC 247441256
  • Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible. Vol. 1. Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, forthcoming.
  • Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible. Vol. 2. Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, forthcoming.
  • Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible. Vol. 3. Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, forthcoming.

Edited books

  • Gottwald, Norman K., ed. The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1983. OCLC 8954335
  • Gottwald, Norman K., and Richard A. Horsley, eds. The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics. Rev. ed. Bible and Liberation Series. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993. OCLC 27895938
  • Coote, Robert B., and Norman K. Gottwald, eds. To Break Every Yoke: Essays in Honor of Marvin L. Chaney. Social World of Biblical Antiquity, 2nd ser., 3. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007. OCLC 228497046

Festschriften

  • Jobling, David, Peggy L. Day, and Gerald T. Sheppard, eds. The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Norman K. Gottwald on His Sixty-fifth Birthday. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1991. OCLC 24174005
  • Boer, Roland, ed. Tracking the Tribes of Yahweh: On the Trail of a Classic. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplements 351. London: Sheffield Academic, 2002. OCLC 27895938

See also

References

  1. ^ William G. Dever (31 March 2006). Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-4416-3. p.53–54.
  2. ^ Roland Boer (2011-04-29). "Norman Gottwald: A Pioneering Marxist Biblical Scholar". MR Zine. Monthly Review. Retrieved 2015-04-19.
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