Tag: messianic expectation
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Reflecting on Isaiah 9 2-7
What is our response to this beautiful prophetic poetry? This compact, evocative expression of realized eschatology – the already of the prophetic future – and this heart-rending depiction of the good life intended for humanity? [Not to lead the witness at all here …] Do we long for its realization? Notice the gap between consummation…
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Studying Isaiah 9 2-7
We are studying Isaiah 9:2-7 for Sunday, December 19 – a beautiful expression of the anticipation of future redemption, and the text for one of the more famous choruses from Handel’s Messiah. [Some questions on the text are here.] Here are my notes on this text: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: The book of Isaiah is a…
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Studying Isaiah 29 15-24
We are studying Isaiah 29:15-24 for Sunday, May 9. The text is a prophetic poem that seems to speak to – but perhaps also beyond – the dire situation of the siege of Jerusalem by the Assyrians in 701 BCE. [Some questions on the text are here.] Here are my notes on this text: BACKGROUND…
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Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
Say among the nations, “YHWH is king! The world is firmly established; it shall never be moved. YHWH will judge the peoples with equity.”Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;let the field exult, and everything in it. Then shall all the trees of…
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Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost
On this mountain YHWH Sabaoth will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he…
Matters of Interpretation 