Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible Volume Three (Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice)

PART 1: EXAMINING TEXTS 1. Social Drama in the Psalms of Individual Lament 2. Kingship in the Book of Psalms 3. Abusing the Bible: The Case of Deuteronomy 15 4. Do not Fear What They Fear: A Post-9/11 Reflection(Isaiah 8:11-15) 5. The Expropriated and the Expropriators in Nehemiah 5 6. 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 Adornos Immanent Criticism to Ecclesiastes PART 2: ENGAGING PRACTICES 8. Framing Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary: A Student Self Inventory on Biblical Hermeneutics 9. Theological Education as a Theory-Praxis Loop: Situating the Book of Joshua in a Cultural Social Ethical and Theological Matrix 10. The Bible as Nurturer of Passive and Active Worldviews 11. Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse 12. On Framing Elections: The Stories We Tell Ourselves 13. 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 Israel Norman 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.