What Can Be Learnt About The Community For Whom This Text Was Originally Created?

Q1) What can be learnt about the community for whom this text was originally created?
Isaiah 49: 14-15: From this text, we can learn that the community for whom this text was originally created was set in the mid to late 8th century BCE when the Jews were under threat from Assyria.
John 13:1-20: From this text, we cannot learn much about the community, but we do know that it is the Johannine community and it is believed they were situated in Ephesus. The community is believed to be not fully made of Jewish followers, but a mixed group of those Jewish and those Gentile in heritage. There is also belief by scholars that the book of John may have been to resolve issues between the two mixed groups.

Q2) Who authored, edited and/or translated this

It is not considered to establish authorship as no names are given.
John 13:1-20: It is unknown who wrote the text, however it is suspected it was the historical disciple John who did so.

Q3) What messages might the text have conveyed to its original audience?
Isaiah 49:14-15: It is theorised that this passage may use the image of a nursing mother to compare and describe God’s never-forgetting love and compassion for Israel as at the time the Jews were being held captive in Babylon and Zion and her husband Jehovah were complaining to God about their unruly situation.
John 13:1-20: In this text, the main message conveyed would be how woman and men should be treated equally and of the same relationship as each other. This is portrayed through the important roles woman play throughout this text which may have differed to other books.

World of the Text

Q1) Who are the characters in the

Isaiah 49:14-15: God states “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb?
Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”
This can be understood by the overall happenings in the book of Isaiah; Trito-Isaiah and the Jews return to Jerusalem after their lengthily exile in Babylon to rebuild the Temple, their religious identity and their national identity. But for this they needed reassurance from God that he will watch over them and keep them safe.
John 13:1-20: During the festival of the Passover, Jesus acts on washing the disciples feet as if cleansing them from sin, then stating that “not all of you are clean” referring to the sin of betrayal of Judas. After the washing of the feet, Jesus then states “whoever receives one whom I send receives me; and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.” Referring to whoever receives the faith, love and security Jesus sends then receives God.

Q3) Where does the story take place?
Isaiah 49: 14-15: This story mostly takes place in Jerusalem, but also shortly in Babylon.
John 13:1-20: This story takes place the night before the