Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 Bce (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841270265)

A twentieth-anniversary reprint of the landmark book that launched the current explosion of social-scientific studies in the biblical field. It sets forth a cultural-material methodology for reconstructing the origins of ancient Israel and offers the hypothesis that Israel emerged as an indigenous social revolutionary peasant movement. In a new preface, written for this edition, Gottwald takes account of the 'sea change' in biblical studies since 1979 as he reviews the impact of his work on church and academy, assesses its merits and limitations, indicates his present thinking on the subject, and points toward future directions in the social-critical study of ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible.

Author: Norman K. Gottwald
ISBN-10: 1841270261
ISBN-13: 9781841270265
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1999
Pages: 968
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.28lbs
Size: 9.76h x 6.92w x 1.69d