Raised on several farms near Albany, Oregon after his 1918 birth in Bakersfield, California, Millard Lind studied at Hesston (Kan.) College before receiving a B.A. from Goshen (Ind.) College in 1942. After he earned his B.D. degree from Goshen College Biblical Seminary, Lind was pastor at Hopewell Mennonite Church, Kouts, Indiana, until 1947. Next he and family moved to Scottdale, Pennsylvania. There Lind began twelve years on the editorial staff of Mennonite Publishing House and received a Th.M. from Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary while also serving as pastor of the Kingview Mennonite Church. During 1960-1990, Lind was Professor of Old Testament at Goshen Biblical and Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries until 1990. In 1965 Lind received his Th.D. degree in Old Testament from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. In the 1960s and 1970s he also studied in Israel and Greece with Hebrew Union College; the American Schools of Oriental Research, East Jerusalem; the Ecumenical Institute at Tantur, Jerusalem. He co-led student study groups to the Near East in 1973 and 1975 and in 1982 led an AMBS fall semester of students abroad, situated in the walled city of Jerusalem. Lind was an associate trustee of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1981-1983 and has had a continuing interest in Middle Eastern archaeology, especially as it relates to the Bible. Lind reports that The Sound of Sheer Silence and the Killing State is an attempt, after half a century of study and teaching, to say what he concludes the Bible is centrally about. A practical source of interest for writing the book came from serving with the College Mennonite Church Peace Ministries Center in an inter-faith effort against capital punishment. From the biblical side, an impulse for the effort was born when he was invited by his pastor to lead a congregational seminar on The Sermon on the Mount. With the class, he considered again the New Testament statement of the unity of the Bible, the nature of the relationship between Moses, Elijah, and Jesus; and was confronted once more with the Bible’s claim that it presents for the world an alternative law and justice. Lind’s earlier books included Yahweh Is a Warrior (Herald Press, 1980); Monotheism, Power, Justice (Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1990); and Ezekiel in the Believers Church Bible Commentary (Herald Press, 1996). He has published numerous articles in scholarly and church magazines. Lind and his wife Miriam live in Goshen, Indiana. They have seven grown children, eighteen grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Sound of Sheer Silence orders:
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