Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 76 No. 1, 2006.
Original scientific paper
The House of Prayer for All People (IS 56:7). An Analysis of Masoretic Text & Septuagintine as a Hermeneutic Precondition of the New Testament
Mario Cifrak
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This exegetical paper will study the meaning of Is 56:7. The text appears cited in the synoptic Gospels (cf. Mk 11:17; Mt 21:13; Lk 19:46). In order to properly understand the citation it is important to know what the hagiographists thought while they had the wider context of the cited text before their eyes. Our first task then is to set the limits of the pericope that this citation belongs to in TM and LXX. Commentaries usually stop at Is 56:8, they indicate that the whole text is Is 56:1—8. The void, which we find in the codex B 19A (L) after v. 9, encourages us to consider that the whole text should be Is 56:1—9. Respectively, we have limited the actual micro context according to the liturgical reading in Is 56:6-9. hence the originality and uniqueness of this study. At first, it is worth while seeing the original TM, Is 56:5-9 and its exegesis. Based on it we came to key prayers, these being: strangers, the banquet, joining and House of Prayer. We refer to a text that is heard in the liturgy. The Evangelists however, do not use the original but the Greek text. It is important to notice each distancing from the original as it can change the meaning that has a decisive influence on texts in the New Testament. Based on key-motives, we can conclude that according to the TM and the LXX Is 56:9, the Temple of the House of Prayer is for all people. Yahweh will gather the scattered people of lsrael and other (pagan) peoples. All are invited to the banquet that has a celebratory and not sacrificial character.
Keywords
Is 56:7; House of prayer; peoples; banquet; synoptic
Hrčak ID:
24197
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Publication date:
1.8.2006.
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