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Struggles for shalom : peace and violence across the Testaments / edited by Laura L. Brenneman and Brad D. Schantz ; foreword by Ben C. Ollenburger.

Contributor(s): Brenneman, Laura L [editor.] | Schantz, Brad D [editor.] | Ollenburger, Ben C [writer of foreword.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in peace and scripture: v. 12.Publisher: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2014]Description: xxiv, 376 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1620326221; 9781620326220 (pbk.)Subject(s): Peace -- Biblical teaching | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Peace -- Religious aspects -- JudaismBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and indexes.
Contents:
Peace and violence across the Testaments / Laura L. Brenneman -- Mennonite peace theology and ethics: biblical or canonical? / Perry B. Yoder -- Creation and violence / 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and indexes.

Peace and violence across the Testaments / Laura L. Brenneman -- Mennonite peace theology and ethics: biblical or canonical? / Perry B. Yoder -- Creation and violence / 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.

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