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Israel’s Emergence in Canaan

BR interviews Norman Gottwald

26 Norman K. Gottwald, W. W. White Professor of Biblical Studies at New York Theological Seminary, is known for his pioneering work in developing and applying sociological and anthropological methods in the study of the Hebrew Bible. Of special interest are his views regarding the vexed question of Israel’s emergence in Canaan. For years scholars have debated whether Israel possessed the land by means of conquest or by peaceful infiltration. More recently, Gottwald has extensively developed a third view—that Israel emerged in Canaan as a result of a “peasant’s revolt” by a Canaanite underclass. Aspects of his theory have […]

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Footnotes

1.

B.C.E. is the scholarly, religiously neutral designation corresponding to B.C. It stands for “Before the Common Era.”

2.

See George F. Mendenhall, “The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine,” Biblical Archaeologist 25 (1962), pp. 66–87.

3.

In the original languages ‘apiru and ‘ivri are both written consonantally. They both begin with a gutteral consonant called ayin. The p of ‘apiru reduces to b (also pronounced v) in Hebrew. This is then followed in both words by r.—Ed.