Isaiah 43:1-7
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- Reading the Text:
- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
- The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
- The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Hebrew text with concordance, commentaries.
- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition and sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and Comparative
Texts:
- IV.XIV.1, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
- I.9, Paedagogus, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
- V.III, The Refutation of all Heresies (Philosophumena), Hippolytus of Rome. (c. 225)
- XII.28, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247)
- An Address to Demetrianus -- Cyprian of Carthage (c. 252)
- Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org.
- From the Geneva Notes.
- "When you see dangers and conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of your God, and it will encourage you."
- From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
- "God's favour and good-will to his people speak abundant comfort to all believers."
- From
Wesley's
Notes.
- "I have not only created them out of nothing, but I have also formed and made them my peculiar people."
- From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
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Commentary,
Isaiah 43:1-7 (Baptism of our Lord), Anathea Portier-Young, Preaching This
Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
- "In preaching this passage I would keep God's broader plan of salvation in view, while focusing attention on the shocking particularity of God's love for this one people, Israel, for whom God would pay any price."
- Isaiah 43:1-7, Studies on Old Testament texts from Series C, Ralph W. Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
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- Isaiah 42:18-43:12, Bible Study by Anthony Bartlett at Preaching Peace.
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1 Epiphany, Year C: Isaiah 43:1-7, Biblische
Ausbildung, Dr. Stephen L. Cook, Virginia Theological Seminary.
Part 2.
- "The good news of the salvation oracle in Isaiah 43 is that God directly addresses this experience of exile."
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"Waters, Rivers, Fire & Flames," Mary Hinkle,
Pilgrim Preaching:
Keeping Company with Biblical Texts and the People Who Hear and Preach Them.
- "A couple of months ago, a Christian said to me something like, 'Everyone in this life will leave you.' It seemed to me she was taking the death of others a little too personally ('He didn't die just in order to leave you.'), but her passion and clarity on this point were stunning. I imagine a similar sentiment among Isaiah's listeners. Everyone in this life ?including God?will leave you."
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Isaiah 43:1-7,
The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common
Lectionary, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church,
Melbourne, Australia.
- "One could expect the declaration of guilt at the end of ch. 42 to be followed by a ?sentence? of judgment, but it is not. As one writer puts it, the logic of grace takes over and the people are told to ?fear not?."
- Isaiah 43:1-7, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in Australia.
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- "Confident that you are more than your name, that you are first and foremost a baptized and beloved child of God, you can look at the world, and even around your neighborhood, with new eyes."
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- "Reading Isaiah emboldens us as we pass through our next water of redemption to find a glory not fully dreamed. Can you imagine living already redeemed, already glorious?"
- Expository Essay, Isaiah 43:1-7, Dr. William R. Long.
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Commentary,
Isaiah 43:1-7 (Baptism of our Lord), Anathea Portier-Young, Preaching This
Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
- Articles & Background:
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"Who is
Battering Whom?" by Dr. David R. Blumenthal, Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory
University.
- "However, in a remarkable little book entitled, Batter My Heart, Gracia Fay Ellwood has gathered together most of the violent and abusive passages in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. I thought I had read them all but Ellwood showed me some new ones, as well as some old ones in a new light. God is the abusive husband who goes through the well-known fight-beat-reconcile cycle. God wounds, heals, and wounds again."
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"Notes on God's Violence," Catherine Madsen,
Cross Currents,
2001.
- "If it is exhilarating to imagine God as a female energy, it is also exhilarating to imagine a masculine energy that does not constrain or inhibit or bind our own energy, but sets it free. A violence that can be met and mastered, a bad temper that can be opposed, an unlikeness that is not a negation."
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"Who is
Battering Whom?" by Dr. David R. Blumenthal, Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory
University.
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Albertz, Rainer, "Darius in Place of Cyrus: the First
Edition of Deutero-Isaiah in 521 BC," Journal for the Study of the
Old Testament, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Croatto, J. Severino,
"The 'Nations' in the Salvific Oracles of Isaiah," Vetus Testamentum,
2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Keiser, Thomas A.,
"The Song of Moses as a Basis for Isaiah's Prophecy,"
Vetus
Testamentum, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Albertz, Rainer, "Darius in Place of Cyrus: the First
Edition of Deutero-Isaiah in 521 BC," Journal for the Study of the
Old Testament, 2003.
- Sermons:
- Reviews:
- Review: Francesc Ramis Darder, El triunfo de Yahve sobre los idolos (Is 40,12-44,23): "En vez de zarzas crecera el cipres". Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, 2002. Review by Leo Laberge in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004. (Review is in English.)
- Review: Jim W. Adams, The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40-55. T&T Clark, 2006. Review by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.
- With Children:
- "When You Cross Deep Rivers, I Will Be With You," Sunday School Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc.
- Drama:
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Hymns and Music:
- Hymn Selections, The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship.
- At Digital Hymnal (midi files, guitar chords, karaoke files, projection text):
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- Study Links and Resources for the Book of Isaiah
