Yahweh Is A Warrior

by Millard Lind

Overview

Millard C. Lind's classic study of warfare in ancient Israel. Israel saw God alone as delivering his people, without the need of human warriors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780836112337
Publisher:	MennoMedia
Publication date:	11/08/1980
Series:	Christian Peace Shelf Series
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.37(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Millard C. Lind is professor emeritus of Old Testament at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, where over a period of thirty years, he has taught the book of Ezekiel. He has written books such as Yahweh Is a Warrior, Monotheism, Power, Justice, and published articles in scholarly and church magazines.

What People are Saying About This

Endorsement

"[The traditional understanding of the nature of war in the Old Testament] needs revision from every angle: the underlying anti-Judaism, the imperial establishment mood, the failure to perceive in the Hebrew Scriptures the evolution from Joshua to Jeremiah, and in postcanonical Judaism the further evolution through Jochanan ben Zakkai to Judah 'the Prince.'

"One core part of the task, the most strategic in some ways, is the revision that Millard Lind is undertaking. What was actually the shape of the war story in the formative experience of ancient Israel? When properly understood, does that meaning point toward or away from Jesus? The New Testament witness seems clear.... Jesus claims Abraham, Moses, and 'all the prophets' as his precursors. It should therefore not be surprising from the gospel perspective if Lind's revision were right; but the reader must judge." —John Howard Yoder