One voice on two late pieces by Norman K. Gottwald. First, “Response: Twenty-Five Years and Counting”, Semeia 87 (1999): 255-265, his reflection on the volume The Social World of the Hebrew Bible: Twenty-Five Years of the Social Sciences in the Academy. Second, “Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse”, Biblical Interpretation 11 (2003): 555-565, from a March 2001 address in Fort Worth with a postscript after September 11. Opens with a short recap of episode 3. About an hour.
Covered: the sea change in the field, why the Tribes could not be revised, the drift from macrosociology to anthropology, the Iceland comparison, the impossibility of keeping up, ideology as the hidden medium; then the four forums for going public, the two issue clusters scholars take up and the two they avoid, the three reasons why, the four personal dilemmas, Althusser’s guilty reading, and the postscript on September 11 and corporate greed. Closes with the links forward to Chaney and Myers.
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