Morreu Norman K. Gottwald

Será que existe alguém aqui no Brasil que lida com Bíblia Hebraica / Antigo Testamento e/ou com História de Israel que ainda não conhece Norman K. Gottwald? E sua teoria da revolta camponesa ou da retribalização, para explicar as origens de Israel?

E que nunca tropeçou em seu “tijolaço” de quase mil páginas chamado The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 B.C.E. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1979 [2. ed. 1999], em português: As Tribos de Iahweh: Uma Sociologia da Religião de Israel Liberto, 1250-1050 a.C. 2. ed. São Paulo: Paulus, 2004 [1. ed. 1986]?

Pois é. Norman K. Gottwald morreu no dia 11 de março de 2022 aos 95 anos de idade.

Gottwald está presente na Ayrton’s Biblical Page e no Observatório Bíblico em vários lugares. Confira, por exemplo:

Leitura socioantropológica da Bíblia Hebraica: as teorias de Mendenhall e de Gottwald – Ayrton’s Biblical Page: 1999

História de Israel – As origens de Israel: a teoria da revolta – Ayrton’s Biblical Page – Última atualização: 2021

A História de Israel no debate atual – Israel: Canaã transformado? – Ayrton’s Biblical Page: 2001

Norman K Gottwald por Roland Boer – Observatório Bíblico: 30.04.2011

Veja as obras de Norman K. Gottwald aqui e aqui.

Norman K. Gottwald (1926 – 2022) was Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at New York Theological Seminary and taught previously at the Graduate Theological Union and Andover Newton Theological School. His most influential book is The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 B.C.E. (1979), a celebrated study of the origins of ancient Israel as an indigenous peasant uprising. His other writings include The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary Introduction, The Hebrew Bible in Its Social World and in Ours, The Politics of Ancient Israel, and, as co-author, The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics. Gottwald pioneered the use of social theory and method in biblical studies. He was a world-wide lecturer on the critical relevance of the Bible to contemporary social struggles and a citizen activist in numerous civil rights, anti-war, and pro-labor movements and organizations. As an ordained minister of American Baptist Churches USA, he was a strong advocate of popular biblical study committed to social change.

See also:

Remembering and Honoring Norman K. Gottwald

Remembering Dr. Norman K. Gottwald, preeminent scholar of the Old Testament