Isaiah 65:17-25

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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• Historical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
  • Vision I.3, Shepherd of Hermas. (c.145)
  • Chapter LXXXI, Dialogue With Trypho, Justin Martyr. (c 160)
  • V.XV.1, V.XXXIV.4, V.XXXV.1, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
  • III.15, V.14, Stromata, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
  • V.2, V.19, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 212)
  • Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org.
  • From the Geneva Notes.
    • "He proposes to the faithful the blessings which are contained in the law, and so under temporal things comprehends the spiritual promises."
  • From Matthew Henry's Commentary.
    • "In the grace and comfort believers have in and from Christ, we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. The former confusions, sins and miseries of the human race, shall be no more remembered or renewed."
  • From Wesley's Notes.
    • "I am about wholly to change the state not only of my people, but to bring a new face upon the world, which shall abide until a new heavens and earth appear, in which shall dwell nothing but righteousness."
  • From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
    • "The former sorrows of the earth, under the fall, shall be so far from recurring, that their very remembrance shall be obliterated by the many mercies I will bestow on the new earth."
• Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
  • Isaiah 65:17-25, Proper 33C, Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
  • Commentary, Isaiah 65:17, 21-24, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, The African American Lectionary, 2010.
    • "In this respect, stealing refers to the food I throw away and the shoes I stack and store while others go hungry and naked."
  • Lectionary Commentary, Isaiah 65:17-25, 24th Sunday After Pentecost, (Year C), Dennis Bratcher, Christian Resource Institute.
    • "We can "maintain justice, and do what is right" precisely because "my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed." Hope, and faith, that God will not leave the world the way it is frees us to be his people, frees us to light candles in the present darkness of sin, knowing that finally the darkness will be vanquished!"
  • Isaiah 65:17-25, The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan, Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church, Melbourne, Australia.
    • "We are coming to the end of the Christian year and our attention is directed to the fulfilment of God’s purpose for all creation. It is as if we are taken back to the beginning of things again, as if there is in the end a return to the start. That is true in more ways than one in our reading for this week."
  • Isaiah 65:17-25, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in Australia.
  • Isaiah 65:17-25, Easter C, The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan, Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Isaiah 65:17-25, Studies on Old Testament texts from Series C, Ralph W. Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
  • Isaiah 63:17-25, Easter C, Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
  • Isaiah 65:17-25, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in Australia.
  • Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Discussion, Isaiah 65:17-25, Wesley White. "A place of conversation regarding Progressive Christianity."
    • "The need for Isaiah's imagery is as real as it is seemingly so far off. No amount of betrayal will interrupt the promise. No amount of expectation will prepare us for a breakthrough of vision into reality - it still comes as a surprise, a vision resurrected is transformative."
  • Reflection on Isaiah 65:17-25 by Helen Hanten. Environmental & earth-centered reflections from the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Environmental Stewardship Commission.
    • "Our pilgrimages may be to shrines already built, locations where some event occurred of wide impact such as a plane crash or a ship sinking, or a pilgrimage can be to a place in our personal history -- the birthplace or home or grave of an ancestor or relative or someone we loved."
  • "Transitions..." Expository Essay, Dr. William R. Long.
• Articles & Background:
  • "'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,' The Holy City," Peter Walker, Sojourners, September/October 2000.
    • "Belief in the city's holiness has sometimes been used to legitimate unholy action."
  • "Mission and Unity," Jan vanButselaar, The Ecumenical Review, 2000.
    • "...these theologians were often asking the same questions with regard to the faith and the order of the church as their colleagues in CWME asked about the mission of the church: questions about justice, liberation, (economic) ethics. Did this similarity not show how closely mission and unity were related for the church, and should they therefore not be studied together? Should there not be a joint world conference on mission and unity?"
  • "Isaiah 65,20: Centenarians or Millenarians?" A. Gardner, Biblica, 2005.
    • "In order to resolve the difficulties presented by Isa 65,20 it is necessary to consider the context."
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  • Bratcher, Margaret Dee, "Salvation Achieved," Review & Expositor, 1991.
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  • Carroll, Sister Janet, M.M., "The Mission of the Churches in Realizing a New World Order: Morality - Justice - Peace," Missiology, 1985.
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  • Castens, Kyle D., "Homiletical Helps on LW Series C.," Concordia Journal, 2007. (Section on this text begins on p. 75.)
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  • deGruchy, John W., "A New Heaven and a New Earth," Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 1999.
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  • Grab, Ginger, "Books and Articles on the Theme of Joy," The Living Pulpit, 1996. (see Joy issue focus of The Living Pulpit 5.4, 1996.)
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  • Mauser, Ulrich, "Expository Article: Isaiah 65:17-25," Interpretation, 1982.
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  • Smoak, Jeremy D., "Building Houses and Planting Vineyards: The Early Inner-Biblical Discourse on an Ancient Israelite Wartime Curse," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2008.
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  • van Butselaar, Jan, "Mission and Unity," Ecumenical Review, 2000.
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  • Webster, Edwin C., "The Rhetoric of Isaiah 63-65," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1990.
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  • Williams, Delores, "The Sent and the Sender," The Christian Century, 1990.
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  • Webster, Edwin C., "The Rhetoric of Isaiah 63-65," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1990.
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• Sermons:
  • "The Victory of Justice," Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 2005.
• Reviews:
  • Review: Leszek Ruszkowski, Volk und Gemeinde im Wandel: Eine Untersuchung zu Jesaja 56-66. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000) Review by Roy D. Wells in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature. (Review is in English.)
• With Children:
  • "New Heavens and a New Earth," children's study, puzzles, coloring sheet, etc. Higher Praise Christian Center.
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