Laura L Brenneman

Struggles for Shalom: Peace and Violence Across the Testaments - Studies in Peace and Scripture: Institute of Mennonite Studi Laura L Brenneman

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Illustrations -- Series Preface -- Foreword / Ben C. Ollenburger -- Acknowledgments / Laura L. Brenneman -- Abbreviations -- 1. Peace and Violence across the Testaments / Laura L. Brenneman -- Part 1. Peace and Violence in the Hebrew Bible -- 2. Mennonite Peace Theology and Ethics: Biblical or Canonical? / Perry B. Yoder -- 3. Creation and Violence / Ben C. Ollenburger -- 4. YHWH Is a Warrior Reevaluated (Exodus 15:3) / Andrea Dalton Saner -- 5. Violence Added: A Study of Insertions of Violence into English Translations of the Hebrew Bible / Wilma Ann Bailey -- 6. No Other Gods: Allegiance and Identity in the Nation State / Paul Keim -- 7. The Paradoxical Monstrification of Egypt in the Book of Ezekiel: Violence in the Name of Purity / Safwat Marzouk -- 8. These Three Men: Another Look at Ezekiel 14:12-23 / Brad D. Schantz -- 9. Should We Take Time for War? Moral Indeterminacy in Qohelet's Poem / Douglas B. Miller -- 10. The Concept of Shalom in the Book of Chronicles / Steven Schweitzer -- 11. Sex, Knowledge, and Evil: Violence and Peace in the Book of the Watchers / Jackie Wyse-Rhodes -- 12. The Sword in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism / Dorothy M. Peters -- Part 2. Peace and Violence in the New Testament -- 13. Peace and Violence in the New Testament: Definition and Methodology / Willard M. Swartley -- 14. Righteousness and Peace Will Kiss: The Peaceableness of the Super-righteous / Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld -- 15. Jesus, the Peaceable Messiah: The Theology of Matthew in Light of Messianic Interpretation of Scriptures / Paul Yokota -- 16. Jesus's Action in the Temple / David Rensberger -- 17. Swords and Prayer: Luke 22:31-62 - / Mary H. Schertz -- 18. Restoring the Concepts of Friendship and Reciprocity to Christian Discourse / Jo-Ann A. Brant -- 19. The Political is Personal: Anabaptist-Mennonite Appropriation of the Book of Acts in the Sixteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Joshua Yoder -- 20. Be(a)ware of the Dogs, Evildoers and Butchery: Text and Theory in the Discourse on Peace and Violence in Paul / Gordon Zerbe -- 21. Not Peace But a Sword: Class Conflict in Paul's Corinthian Churches / Reta Halteman Finger -- 22. Making Every Effort: Peacemaking and Ecclesiology in Ephesians 4:1-6 / Christopher Marshall -- 23. Paul, Peace, and Apocalyptic / Jacob W. Elias -- 24. Shalom in the Book of Revelation: God, Church, Judgment, New Creation / Michael J. Gorman -- 25. Peace and Scripture: Mennonite Perspectives from the Global South / Nancy R. Heisey -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Ancient Document Index -- Subject Index -- Author Index. Publisher Marketing: Description: Struggles for Shalom is a collection of essays by biblical scholars about peace, justice, and violence in ancient Jewish and Christian texts, written to honor the life work of Mennonite scholars PerryB. Yoder and WillardM. Swartley. In this volume, twenty-three authors--colleagues, former students, friends, and others influenced by Yoder's and Swartley's scholarship--add to the honorees' work in appreciation for their shared focus on biblical texts' lessons of peace. Specific texts and topics include Eccl 3:1-9 and time for war, Ezek 14:12-23 and God's retribution, Luke 22:31-61 and Peter's sword, the temple cleansing episodes in John 2 and Mark 11, sectarianism and violence in manuscripts from the Dead Sea, violence in creation in the Hebrew Bible, Chronicles as utopian literature, peace and violence in Paul's writings, and globalization in biblical studies. This collection is diverse and ambitious. For church and academy, and for anyone curious about what Scripture has to say about peace and violence, this book delivers focused study of peace and violence across the Testaments." Contributor Bio:  Ollenburger, Ben C Ben C. Ollenburger is Professor of Biblical Theology at Associate Mennonite Biblical Seminary.