Table of Contents

Introduction; On Re-Reading The Tribes of Yahweh Specters of Tribes: on the 'Revenance' of a Classic; Norman Gottwald's The Tribes of Yahweh in the Context of "Second-Wave" Social-Scientific Biblical Criticism; Tribes and Tribulations: Retheorizing Earliest 'Israel'; Powerful Ideologies, Challenging Models, and Lasting Changes: Continuing the Journey of Tribes; The Delicate Flower of Biblical Sociology; The Politics of Debt and the Liberation of the Scriptures; Tribes in Africa: The Impact of Norman Gottwald's The Tribes of Yahweh On African Biblical Hermeneutics (with an Emphasis on Liberation and Inculturation Paradigms); Marx, Method and Gottwald; Political Activism and Biblical Scholarship: An Interview - Norman Gottwald interviewed by Roland Boer; Response to Contributors; Bibliography

About the Author

Roland Boer is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University, Australia.