What Is Isaiah: 1-7

Isaiah 5:1-7, as well as the majority of the rest of Isaiah, was written in order to communicate to eighth century Judah that they should put their trust in YHWH and not put their trust in foreign nations. The direct audience of the text is the Israelites. The meaning of the song is to communicate one clear pointed theme. As Otto Kaiser phrases it, “When God turns to his people, his congregation, he expects them to respond to his choosing and protection with righteousness, with action which derives from the acceptance of his will.” This differs from Mark because Isaiah was written for an already formed group of people. Mark faced the obstacle of writing to a group of people who did not have their own history or traditions apart from those of

Because Mark is writing to new Christians, he makes clear the distinction between them and the Jews through the parable of the vineyard in order that they see themselves as separate from the Jews. The final fundamental difference that will be discussed in this paper, and probably the most important, is the addition of the son in Mark’s parable. In the Christian tradition, Jesus is the son of God and the mediator between the people and God. In Jewish tradition, they are all sons and daughters of God and there is no one particular son of God. In the parable in Mark, the son comes to mediate between the tenants and the owner because the servants, or the prophets, have failed. The tenants then kill the son so that the inheritance will be theirs. However in

Although there is a reason for why this anti-semitism exists in the New Testament, there is no validation or true justification for these sentiments. The Bible has now gone on to be viewed as the “Word of God” and divinely inspired, although it was written by the hands of humans in specific situations. Because of the weight the Bible holds in the minds of Christians, things such as the parable of the vineyard in Mark can and have been used to justify horrendous actions. Actions such as the crusades, the expulsions, the inquisitions, and the ghettos were all instigated and supported by the Christian church. It can be reasonably concluded that the support of these atrocities comes from passages such as Mark 12:1-12. Additionally, events such as the Shoa came from the social climate created by these atrocities which were supported by the church. It is crucial that Christians acknowledge that this type of reading of the Bible has lead to these