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The Politics of Ancient Israel
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NORMAN K. GOTTWALD, The Politics of Ancient Israel (Library of Ancient Israel; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001). Pp. xvii + 366. $46.95.
Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Indeed, and Gottwald succeeds in combining the two in a prime example of creative scholarship. In the first two chapters of his book, he configures his presentation of the politics of ancient Israel as an exercise in critical imagination. As a critical construct, his work puts him in dialogue with scholarly opinion on contemporary issues regarding politics as a material phenomenon, the ...
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