RT Article
T1 "No One Strives to Take Hold of You": Mark 5's Echoes of Isaiah 63:7–66:17
JF Neotestamentica
VO 57
IS 2
SP 229
OP 243
A1 Giffone, Benjamin D. 1984-
A1 Wile, Sage E.
A2 Wile, Sage E.
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1908846763
AB We highlight echoes of Isaiah 63:7-66:17 in Mark 5, amplifying and refining observations made by other scholars and adding other connections that we have identified. In this section of Isaiah, the people's hardness of heart is connected to their state of ritual impurity. YHWH remains exasperated with those Israelites who persist in their hardheartedness but reaches out not only to faithful Israelites but also others outside Israel. Mark 5 exhibits echoes of Isa 63:7-66:17, in that moral and ritual reconciliation occurs between YHWH and wayward humans. This reconciliation takes place specifically when humans respond by "reaching out" to Jesus (YHWH incarnate), who continually reaches out to his people (as well as to the nations). bstract
DO 10.1353/neo.2023.a943176