Norman Gottwald, Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies, passed away on March 11, at the age of 95. Gottwald was a Hebrew Bible scholar who pioneered the use of social theory in biblical studies. He was perhaps best known for his seminal work, The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250–1050 B.C.E. (1979). Gottwald received his doctorate in biblical literature from Columbia University and taught at several renowned institutions across a career that spanned more than four decades, including Columbia, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley School of Theology, and New York Theological Seminary. He also served […]
