Struggles for shalom
Subtitle: peace and violence across the Testaments
By: edited by Laura L. Brenneman and Brad D. Schantz ; foreword by Ben C. Ollenburger
Series: Studies in peace and scripture -- vol. 12; Studies in peace and scripture -- vol. 12.
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781620326220
Subjects: Gewalt; Exegese; Judaism; Criticism, interpretation; Peace; Christianity; Bibel; Bible; Wort; Biblical teaching; Schalom; Friedensbemühung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Peace and violence across the Testaments  -- Laura L. Brenneman; title: Mennonite peace theology and ethics: biblical or canonical?  -- Perry B. Yoder; title: Creation and violence  -- Ben C. Ollenburger; title: "YHWH is a warrior" reevaluated (Exodus 15:3)  -- Andrea Dalton Saner; title: Violence added: a study of insertions of violence into English translations of the Hebrew Bible  -- Wilma Ann Bailey; title: No other gods: allegiance and identity in the nation state  -- Paul Keim; title: The paradoxical monstrification of Egypt in the book of Ezekiel: violence in the name of purity  -- Safwat Marzouk; title: "These three men": another look at Ezekiel 14:12-23  -- Brad D. Schantz; title: Should we take time for war?: moral indeterminacy in Qohelet's poem  -- Douglas B. Miller; title: The concept of shalom in the book of Chronicles  -- Steven Schweitzer; title: Sex, knowledge, and evil: violence and peace in the Book of the watchers  -- Jackie Wyse-Rhodes; title: The sword in the Dead Sea Scrolls and sixteenth-century Anabaptism  -- Dorothy M. Peters; title: Peace and violence in the New Testament: definition and methodology  -- Willard M. Swartley; title: "Righteousness and peace will kiss": the peaceableness of the super-righteous  -- Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld; title: Jesus, the peaceable Messiah: the theology of Matthew in light of messianic interpretation of scriptures  -- Paul Yokota; title: Jesus's action in the temple  -- David Rensberger; title: Swords and prayer: Luke 22:31-62  -- Mary H. Schertz; title: Restoring the concepts of friendship and reciprocity to Christian discourse  -- Jo-Ann A. Brant; title: The political is personal: Anabaptist-Mennonite appropriation of the book of Acts in the sixteenth and twentieth centuries  -- Joshua Yoder; title: "Be(a)ware of the dogs, evildoers and butchery": text and theory in the discourse on peace and violence in Paul  -- Gordon Zerbe; title: "Not peace but a sword": class conflict in Paul's Corinthian churches  -- Reta Halteman Finger; title: "Making every effort": peacemaking and ecclesiology in Ephesians 4:1-6  -- Christopher Marshall; title: Paul, peace, and apocalyptic  -- Jacob W. Elias; title: Shalom in the book of Revelation: God, church, judgment, new creation  -- Michael J. Gorman; title: Peace and scripture: Mennonite perspectives from the global South -- Nancy R. Heisey.