Show Notes:
- Dick Nysse’s essay, “Is God Violent?“
1.11: Is God Violent?
What do we do with the violence of God in Scripture, particularly in the Old Testament?
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Today's Episode Hosted By
Eric Barreto
Kathryn Schifferdecker
Joined by
Dick Nysse
Featuring:
Richard W. Nysse
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.
Hosted By:
Eric Barreto
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
Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org, 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.