Struggles for Shalom: Peace and Violence across the Testaments
Ebook
Overview
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 Perry B. Yoder and Willard M. 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. Contributors: Wilma Ann Bailey Jo-Ann A. Brant Laura L. Brenneman Jacob W. Elias Reta Halteman Finger Michael J. Gorman Nancy R. Heisey Paul Keim Christopher Marshall Safwat Marzouk Douglas B. Miller Ben C. Ollenburger Dorothy M. Peters David Rensberger Andrea Dalton Saner Brad D. Schantz Mary H. Schertz Steven Schweitzer Willard M. Swartley Jackie Wyse-Rhodes Joshua Yoder Perry B. Yoder Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld Paul Yokota Gordon Zerbe
”For Mennonites academics who think, study, and advocate for
peace, the world has become much more complicated in the past
half-century. This volume reflects the many ways in which some of
the best contemporary Mennonite and related biblical scholarship
addresses the issues of peace and violence in and through the
biblical texts."
--John Kampen, Van Bogard Professor of Biblical Interpretation,
Methodist Theological School, Ohio
“What a valuable conversation about the message of the Bible with
regard to peace, justice, violence, the nature of God, and the
character of human ethics! From assessments of the state of
biblical scholarship on peace and violence to fresh treatments of
‘problem’ passages in the Bible, this collection offers a rich
feast not to be missed."
--Loren L. Johns, Professor of New Testament, Anabaptist Mennonite
Biblical Seminary
"Struggles for Shalom is a most welcome contribution to
critically engaged biblical scholarship. Perhaps the most fitting
tribute to the legacies of Perry Yoder and Willard Swartley is that
these authors, led by Laura Brenneman and Brad Schantz, extend
biblical, theological, and ethical conversations about violence and
peace to new generations of global citizens, inside and beyond
Mennonite traditions. This valuable collection is ideal for use in
churches, classrooms, and anywhere else justice is sought."
--Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
Product Details
- Title : Struggles for Shalom: Peace and Violence across the Testaments
- Authors:
- Brenneman, Laura
- Schantz, Brad D.
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781498275255
Laura L. Brenneman (PhD, Durham University, UK) is a visiting
lecturer at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and New
Testament editor of Studies in Peace and Scripture. Also a graduate
of the Eastern Mennonite University Center for Justice and
Peacebuilding (Harrisonburg, VA), she works at the intersection of
biblical studies and peace studies; her dissertation (Cascadia,
forthcoming) is about 1 Corinthians 5 and church discipline.
Brad D. Schantz is also a former student of Perry Yoder and
Willard Swartley at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, and is
currently a PhD candidate in the Hebrew Bible program at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.