Social-Scientific Old Testament Criticism

includes index and biblioraphy

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY CYRIL S. ROOD On Applying a Sociological Theory to Biblical Studies 22 DAVID JOBLING Sociological and Literary Approaches to the Bible:How Shall the Twain Meet? 34 DAVID FffiNSY Using the Nuer Culture of Africa in Understanding the Old Testament: An Evaluation J. BERLINERBLAU The `Popular Religion` Paradigm in Old Testament Research: A Sociological Critique SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE GARY A. HERION The Impact of Modern and Social Science Assumptions on the Reconstruction of Israelite History MARK G. BRETT Literacy and Domination: G.A. Herion`s Sociology of History Writing EARLY ISRAEL IN SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE JAMES w. FLANAGAN Chiefs in Israel J.W. ROGERSON Was Early Israel a Segmentary Society? KEITH W. WHITELAM The Identity of Early Israel: The Realignment and Transformation of Late Bronze-Iron Age Palestine THE REGULATION OF SOCIAL LIFE: LAW, ETHICS AND DEVIANCE ELIZABETH BELLEFONTAINE Customary Law and Chieftainship: Judicial Aspects of 2 Samuel 14.4-21 206 LYN M. BECHTEL Shame as a Sanction of Social Control in Biblical Israel: Judicial, Political, and Social Shaming 232 STRATIFICATION, POWER AND SOCIAL JUSTICE WALTER BRUEGGEMANN Theodicy in a Social Dimension 260 J. DAVID PLEINS Poverty in the Social World of the Wise 283 D.N. PREMNATH Latifundialization and Isaiah 5.8-10 301 SOCIAL GROUPINGS AND SOCIAL ROLES THOMAS W. OVERHOLT Seeing is Believing: The Social Setting of Prophetic Acts of Power 314 PATRICIA DUTCHER-WALLS The Social Location of the Deuteronomists: A Sociological Study of Factional Politics in Late Pre-Exilic Judah 341 JON L. BERQUIST Role Dedifferentiation in the Book of Ruth 358 LORI ROWLETT Inclusion, Exclusion and Marginality in the Book of Joshua 372