Struggles for shalom : peace and violence across the Testaments /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brenneman, Laura L. (Editor), Schantz, Brad D. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2014]
Series:	Studies in peace and scripture ; vol. 12.
Subjects:	Peace > Biblical teaching. Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Peace > Religious aspects > Christianity. Peace > Religious aspects > Judaism.

Table of Contents:

Peace and violence across the Testaments / Laura L. Brenneman
Mennonite peace theology and ethics: biblical or canonical? / Ben C. Ollenburger
"YHWH is a warrior" reevaluated (Exodus 15:3) / Andrea Dalton Saner
Violence added: a study of insertions of violence into English translations of the Hebrew Bible / Wilma Ann Bailey
No other gods: allegiance and identity in the nation state / Paul Keim
The paradoxical monstrification of Egypt in the book of Ezekiel: violence in the name of purity / Safwat Marzouk
"These three men": another look at Ezekiel 14:12-23 / Brad D. Schantz
Should we take time for war?: moral indeterminacy in Qohelet's poem / Douglas B. Miller
The concept of shalom in the book of Chronicles / Steven Schweitzer
Sex, knowledge, and evil: violence and peace in the Book of the watchers / Jackie Wyse-Rhodes
The sword in the Dead Sea Scrolls and sixteenth-century Anabaptism / Dorothy M. Peters
Peace and violence in the New Testament: definition and methodology / Willard M. Swartley
"Righteousness and peace will kiss": the peaceableness of the super-righteous / Thomas R. Yoder-Neufeld
Jesus, the peaceable Messiah: the theology of Matthew in light of messianic interpretation of scriptures / Paul Yokota
Jesus's action in the temple / David Rensberger
Swords and prayer: Luke 22:31-62 / Mary H. Schertz
Restoring the concepts of friendship and reciprocity to Christian discourse / Jo-Ann A. Brant
The political is personal: Anabaptist-Mennonite appropriation of the book of Acts in the sixteenth and twentieth centuries / Joshua Yoder
"Be(a)ware of the dogs, evildoers and butchery": text and theory in the discourse on peace and violence in Paul / Gordon Zerbe
"Not peace but a sword": class conflict in Paul's Corinthian churches / Reta Halteman Finger
"Making every effort": peacemaking and ecclesiology in Ephesians 4:1-6 / Christopher Marshall
Paul, peace, and apocalyptic / Jacob W. Elias
Shalom in the book of Revelation: God, church, judgment, new creation / Michael J. Gorman
Peace and scripture: Mennonite perspectives from the global South / Nancy R. Heisey.