Tracking "The Tribes of Yahweh"

Roland Boer is Logan Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Previous publications include 'Jameson and Jeroboam' (Scholars Press, 1996). 'Novel Histories' (Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) and 'Last Stop Before Antarctica' (Sheffield Academic Press 2001).

• 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