ABSTRACT
We often think of peace as simply the absence of war—and in this imperfect world we must be grateful even for this mercy. But peace— shalom —to the prophets of the Hebrew Bible meant much more than this merely negative state. It meant unity and concord; it meant minds and hearts bound together. It meant almost what we mean by love: such a state of harmony, of trust—of what the Greeks called homonoia —that wars or quarrels would be impossible, unthinkable.
