April 2012 Table of Contents

In this Issue

Overview by John D. Roth, editor.

• In Memoriam: Stephen Scott (1948-2011)
• Reading the Maccabean Literature by the Light of the Stake: Anabaptist Appropriations of the Apocrypha
  Loren Johns
• A Tale of Two Newspapers: Die Mennonitische Rundschau (1880-2007)
  and Der Bote (1924-2008)
  Harry Loewen and James Urry
  
• Road Signs Revisited: A Comparison of Anabaptists in the “Global South” and the United States
  Conrad Kanagy
  
• Middle Class Formation in Rural Society: Mennonite Peasant Merchants in
  the Palatinate, Rhine Hesse and the Northern Rhine Valley, 1740-1880
  Frank Konersmann
  

Book Reviews

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• Beachy, Leroy. Unser Leit . . . The Story of the Amish. Volumes I and II.
  Reviewed by Gerald J. Mast
• Kraybill, Donald B., Steven M. Nolt, and David Weaver-Zuercher. The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World.
  Reviewed by Dawn Ruth Nelson
• Hurst, Charles E., and David L. McConnell. An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World’s Largest Amish Community.
  Reviewed by Joseph F. Donnermeyer and Cory Anderson
• Dueck, Abe J., ed. The Mennonite Brethren Church Around the World: Celebrating 150 Years.
  Reviewed by Nancy R. Heisey
• Redekop, Calvin Wall. European Mennonite Voluntary Service: Youth Idealism in Post-World War II Europe.
  Reviewed by Rachel Waltner Goossen
• Stutzman, Ervin R. From Nonresistance to Justice: The Transformation of Mennonite Church Peace Rhetoric, 1908-2008.
  Reviewed by Duane C.S. Stoltzfus
• Loewen, Harry. Cities of Refuge: Stories from Anabaptist-Mennonite History and Life.
  Reviewed by Rich Preheim
• Isaak, Jon M. New Testament Theology: Extending the Table.
  Reviewed by Dorothy Jean Weaver
• Stutzman, Paul Fike. Recovering the Love Feast: Broadening our Eucharistic Celebrations.
  Reviewed by Rachel Miller Jacobs

Book Notes

• Yoder Nyce, Dorothy. Multifaith Musings: Essays and Exchanges.
• Martens, Cornelius. Beneath the Cross: Proclaiming the Gospel under Czars and Soviets.
• Weaver, J. Denny. The Nonviolent Atonement, 2nd ed.
  Noted by Steven Nolt.