Swords into plowshares

Hugh Williamson

pp. 139-149

in: Raymond Cohen, Raymond Westbrook (eds), Isaiah's vision of peace in biblical and modern international relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Abstract

The writing of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament spanned many centuries, indeed as much as a millennium, in some scholars' opinion. During that length of time, beliefs and ideologies would not have remained static but would have developed in response 10 changing situations, that much is obvious.