Class and Intersectionality in the Hebrew Bible: Engaged Biblical Studies in the Academy and on the Streets

This volume commemorates and reflects on the thirtieth anniversary of CLBSJ Co-founder Norman K. Gottwald’s 1992 presidential address to the Society of Biblical Literature. This talk and the subsequent article, which was titled “Social Class as an Analytic and Hermeneutical Category,” centered the question of social class in the discipline of biblical studies. Building on Gottwald’s legacy, contributors to the new volume explore how social class interacts with and intersects with various other social categories and identities both in the Bible and within contemporary society and movement building. As reviewer Kenneth Ngwa comments, “Class and Intersectionality in the Hebrew Bible offers philosophical, methodological, and philological entrees into the robust work of biblical studies for the sake of expansive and transformative liberation. The book beautifully blends and extends the methodological rigor, contextual currency, and existential urgency that Gottwald brought to the labor of biblical interpretation.”