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The Editor
Violence
Renounced
Willard Swartley is professor of New
Testament at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary,
Elkhart, Indiana. He has served as seminary dean 1979-81,
1990, and 1995-2000. He has been a Bible teacher in
congregational settings and churchwide conferences, in
both North America and overseas. His special interests
are in the Gospels, the peace teachings of the Bible, and
biblical interpretation. He is a graduate of Eastern
Mennonite College (B.A.), Goshen Biblical Seminary
(B.D.), and Princeton Theological Seminary (1973 Ph.D.).
Swartley is the New Testament editor
for the Believers Church Bible Commentary Series and New
Testament editor for a book series on Studies in Peace
and Scripture. Swartley earlier taught at Eastern
Mennonite University and served as interim dean there
also. He directed the AMBS Institute of Mennonite Studies
from 1979-1988. He also taught at Goshen College, Eastern
Mennonite College and Seminary, and at Conrad Grebel
College.
Among Swartley’s publications are Mark:
The Way for All Nations (Herald Press, 1979, rev.
1981); Slavery, Sabbath, War and Women: Case Issues
in Biblical Interpretation (Herald Press, 1983);
editor of Love of Enemy and Nonretaliation in the New
Testament (Westminster/John Knox, 1992 [available at
Sigler Press]); Israel’s Scripture Traditions
and the Synoptic Gospels: Story Shaping Story
(Hendrickson, 1994); “War and Peace in the New
Testament,” in Auftstieg and Niedergang der
römischen Welt (ed. W. Haase and H. Temporini, Part
II, Vol. 26.3: 2298-2408); and co-editor, with Donald
Kraybill, of Building Communities of Compassion
(Herald Press, 1998).
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