Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 Bce

by Norman K. Gottwald

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841270261
• ISBN13: 9781841270265
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 968 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"