Show Notes:
- Dick Nysse’s essay, “Is God Violent?“

Nysse has twice been book editor of World & World (1980-84 and 1984-91), the seminary's quarterly theological journal. Since 1989 he has also taught Old Testament in the TEEM program of Pacific Lutheran Seminary in Berkeley, California, a program which Luther Seminary joined in 2007 through the Western Mission Cluster. Nysse wrote "Online Education: An Asset in a Period of Educational Change," in Practical Wisdom, Malcolm L. Warford ed., Peter Lang, 2004.
Eric D. Barreto is the Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament. He holds a B.A. in religion from Oklahoma Baptist University, an M.Div. from Princeton Seminary, and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Emory University.
Prior to coming to Princeton Seminary, he served as associate professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary, and also taught as an adjunct professor at the Candler School of Theology and McAfee School of Theology.
Kathryn M Schifferdecker is Professor and Elva B. Lovell Chair of Old Testament at Luther Seminary. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisconsin, before coming to Luther in 2006. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to Working Preacher, Word & World, and the author of "Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job" (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.
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Nysse has twice been book editor of World & World (1980-84 and 1984-91), the seminary's quarterly theological journal. Since 1989 he has also taught Old Testament in the TEEM program of Pacific Lutheran Seminary in Berkeley, California, a program which Luther Seminary joined in 2007 through the Western Mission Cluster. Nysse wrote "Online Education: An Asset in a Period of Educational Change," in Practical Wisdom, Malcolm L. Warford ed., Peter Lang, 2004.
Eric D. Barreto is the Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament. He holds a B.A. in religion from Oklahoma Baptist University, an M.Div. from Princeton Seminary, and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Emory University.
Prior to coming to Princeton Seminary, he served as associate professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary, and also taught as an adjunct professor at the Candler School of Theology and McAfee School of Theology.
Kathryn M Schifferdecker is Professor and Elva B. Lovell Chair of Old Testament at Luther Seminary. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisconsin, before coming to Luther in 2006. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to Working Preacher, Word & World, and the author of "Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job" (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.