Wicked Vineyard Workers and the Rejected Stone

In telling the parable of the wicked tenants, Jesus deftly draws upon a similar parable in Isaiah 5. How are these parables alike and (importantly) different? How does the interpretation and preaching of Jesus reflect rabbinic models? How does the OT notion of Israelites as tenants on the land owned by the Lord figure into the parable? What Hebrew wordplay is behind the shift from talk of the “Son” to the “stone”? How do passages like Psalm 118, Daniel 2, and sections of Isaiah fill in the story of the rejected Stone? These and other questions, Chad Bird will explore in this week’s video on Luke 20:9-20 in “Reading the Gospels through Hebrew Eyes.”

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Thank you again my faith is strengthened by your insight. I remember you (plural) in my prayers!

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Not Blepw, em-blepw, look into. Our Cathedral has a very clear cornerstone on its eastern wall. That is not what Jesus discusses. In Hebrew, the cornerstone is the altar. Also, John the Baptist, Children of Abraham from stones, and then gezerah shavah, Satan asks Jesus to turn the Eben into bread. Jesus is here to feed the children of Abraham and not feed off of them.

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