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By Michael Fishbane

ISBN-10: 0827606915

ISBN-13: 9780827606913

A countrywide Jewish booklet Award FinalistThe haftarot are an historic a part of Hebrew liturgy. those supplemental readings are excerpted from the Prophets (Nevi'im) and accompany every one weekly Sabbath examining from the Torah in addition to readings for distinctive Sabbaths and gala's. famous Bible pupil Michael Fishbane introduces each one haftarah with an overview and dialogue of ways that passage conveys its which means, and he follows it with observations on the way it pertains to the Torah component or special day. person reviews, bringing up classical rabbinic in addition to sleek commentators, spotlight ambiguities and problems within the Hebrew textual content, which seems to be in live performance with the JPS translation. The haftarot also are positioned into biblical context by way of a separate assessment of all prophetic books (except Jonah) which are excerpted within the haftarah cycle. 

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COMMENTS Isaiah 54:1. children ofthe wifeforlorn The juxtaposition in w. 1 and 2 - 6 of a "forlorn" (shomemah) or "forsaken" ('azuvalo) wife with an "espoused" bride (he'ulah) is a motif also found in Isa. 62:4-5 and 12. The presentation of God as bo'ala-yikh, the one who "will espouse you" (54:5), is echoed in 62:4-5. The terminology has roots in the Pentateuchal law (Deut. 24:1) and was used by other prophets as well (see ler. 3:14, following the marriage imagery in 3:1, 6-10). 4 The form bo'ala-yikh is a plural with the sense of a singular (Ibn Bal'am).

29b. < the judicious remarks of Larrimore Crockett, "Luke 43. See the extensive discussion on these haftarot iv. 16-30 and the Jewish Lectionary Cycle: A Word for details. A ofCaution,"i7S 17 (1966): 13-46. < 44. NJPS translates "rescuing"; but I have rendered "to bring out" to show the link with the seder 31. See B. Meg. 23a. < 32. See Tosef. Meg. 4:18, where no fixed limit is and also to capture the innovative aspect of the infinigiven, though it refers to some of four or five verses tive, which is lost by the gerundive form.

1:27; Ps. 9:9). The term can also bear the sense of God's acts of legal vindication (Isa. 45:21), righteousness (Isa. 5:16) and righteous judgment (Ps. 99:4), andespeciallymilitaryvictory (1 Sam. 12:7; Isa. 46:13, 59:17). 11 a light of nations That is, the agent of good fortune; compare Isa. ]. 7. Opening eyes deprived of light An idiom meaning "freeing the imprisoned"; compare Isa. ]. 9. the things once predicted Literally, the "former things" (ri'shonot). The term is often juxtaposed to prophecies to come, here called the "new things" (hadashot).

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