An Echo of the Shema in Isaiah 51.1-3

Janzen, J. Gerald

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“…A similar passage is Isaiah 51:3 where the prophet claims, “Yhwh will comfort Zion…her wilderness he will make like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yhwh, joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of a melody.” This passage again points to human habitation and cultivation being the ideal because wilderness becomes like the garden of Eden, which indicates that uninhabited wilderness is not like the garden. Also, the sounds of thanksgiving and melody are human sounds that show people have begun to dwell, and celebrate, in these previously un-inhabited areas (Childs, 2001; Motyer, 1999; Goldingay & Payne, 2006; Goldingay, 2001; Janzen, 1989; Kang, 2020; Oswalt, 1998; Smith, 2009; Blenkinsopp, 2002; Lessing, 2011; Baltzer, 2001; Gosse, 2001; Kuntz, 1982 contra Sweeney, 2016).…”

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Prohibited Mixtures: Mixed Plowing and Sowing

Campbell¹

2023

Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture

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This article explores the prohibitions against mixed plowing and sowing (Lev 19:19; Deut 22:10). The proposed interpretation is that these laws are intended to maintain agricultural purity. They prohibit mishandling seeds and using an unclean animal, the donkey, thereby avoiding defilement of the food. This goes against the allegorical interpretations of maintaining the created order or separation from pagan nations. The argument that mixtures belong to God is also critiqued since the texts do not address field confiscation or animal breeding. The agricultural purity interpretation is developed through examination of the grammar of each passage and other agricultural purity passages in the Old Testament.

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Prohibited Mixtures: Mixed Plowing and Sowing

Campbell¹

2023

Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture

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“…Clifford 2010: 279–80). Among others, Schoor 1973; Janzen 1989 view the glorification of God as the purpose of the actions described in Deutero-Isaiah. However, some claim that the orientation is Israel’s redemption (e.g., Snaith 1967: 147–48; Kaminsky and Stewart 2006: 139, 144–45).…”

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“…From ch. 49 onward, Israel is identified with Zion (Melugin 1976: 148; Janzen 1989: 71). Wheeler Stone 1992: 90, views the terms ‘Zion’ and ‘Jerusalem’ as representations of the Israelite women only.…”

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Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–8

Zimran

2024

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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This article offers an analysis of Isaiah 51.1–3, 4–6, 7–8. These units contain multiple similarities that emphasize the fundamental tension between the units, primarily regarding the nature of divine tidings and the identity of their beneficiaries. The first part of the article demonstrates the unique content and design of each unit through a literary analysis; however, since the reading process constantly reveals new content, the underlying tension is further intensified in the second part of the article, which leads to the conclusion that the units are deliberately ambiguous and multivalent. The multifaceted content facilitates an understanding of the units, and Deutero-Isaiah as a whole. The article demonstrates that the dynamic literary-rhetorical design and its interpretive consequences reflect: the existence of various groups (which serve as the ‘rhetorical situation’ of these units), the prospective connections between these groups, and their potential for social, geographical, and ethnic mobility.

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An Echo of the Shema in Isaiah 51.1-3

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Prohibited Mixtures: Mixed Plowing and Sowing

Prohibited Mixtures: Mixed Plowing and Sowing

Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–8

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