Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume Three

PART 1: EXAMINING TEXTS1. Social Drama in the Psalms of Individual Lament2. Kingship in the Book of Psalms 3. Abusing the Bible: The Case of Deuteronomy 154. Do not Fear What They Fear: A Post-9/11 Reflection(Isaiah 8:11-15)5. The Expropriated and the Expropriators in Nehemiah 56. How Do Extrabiblical Sociopolitical Data Illuminate Obscure Biblical Texts? The Case of Ecclesiastes 5:8-9 [Heb. 5:7-8]7. On the Alleged Wisdom of Kings: An Application of Adorno''s Immanent Criticism to EcclesiastesPART 2: ENGAGING PRACTICES8. Framing Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary: A Student Self Inventory on Biblical Hermeneutics9. Theological Education as a Theory-Praxis Loop: Situating the Book of Joshua in a Cultural, Social Ethical, and Theological Matrix10. The Bible as Nurturer of Passive and Active Worldviews11. Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse12. On Framing Elections: The Stories We Tell Ourselves13. Values and Economic Structures""In an extraordinarily long and pioneering career, Norman Gottwald has consistently kept biblical analysis and the search for social justice in close dialogue, often of a more radical kind. In this third volume of Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, we find Gottwald engaging in detailed exegesis, the deployment of sophisticated social-science analysis, and the ever-present need to identify how and why biblical texts are liberating. This work is a must-read for anyone who holds to such ideals.""--Roland Boer, author of The Sacred Economy of Ancient IsraelNorman K. Gottwald, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at New York Theological Seminary, is the author of numerous groundbreaking works, including The Tribes of Yahweh, The Hebrew Bible--A Socio-literary Introduction, and Politics in Ancient Israel.