Struggles for Shalom: Peace and Violence Across the Testaments - Paperback

by Laura Brenneman (Editor), Brad D. Schantz (Editor), Ben C. Ollenburger (Foreword by)

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

Author Biography

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.