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    Journey -Lesson 15 - Prophets in Exile (2)
    Journey -Lesson 15 - Prophets in Exile (2)
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    Journey -Lesson 15 - Prophets in Exile (2)

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is lesson 15 of the Journey Bible Study Program series. This lesson describes the condition of the People of God in Exile and selected themes from Second Isaiah.In chapter 1 entitled "I am doing a new deed" we learn of Second Isaiah message to the People in Exile. In chapter 2 entitled "My ways are not your ways" there is a description of the future role of the People.In chapter 3 we have the conclusion of the commentary on "Dei Verbum".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmmaus Publications
    Release dateJan 14, 2014
    ISBN9781927766187
    Journey -Lesson 15 - Prophets in Exile (2)
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    Marcel Gervais

    About the Author Archbishop Gervais was born in Elie Manitoba on September 21 1931. He is the ninth of fourteen children. His family came from Manitoba to the Sparta area near St. Thomas Ontario when he was just a teenager. He went to Sparta Continuation School and took his final year at Saint Joseph`s High School in St. Thomas. After high school he went to study for the priesthood at St. Peter’s Seminary in London , Ontario. He was ordained in 1958. He was sent to study in Rome. This was followed by studies at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. He returned to London to teach scripture to the seminarians at St. Peter’s Seminary. In 1974 he was asked by Bishop Emmett Carter to take over as director of the Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education. This Centre had been founded by Bishop Carter to provide a resource for adult education in the spirit of Vatican II. This Centre involved sessions of one or two weeks with many of the best scholars of the time. Students came not only from Canada and the United States but from all over the globe, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe. By the time Father Gervais became the director Divine Word Centre was already a course dominated by the study of scripture to which he added social justice. This aspect of the course of studies was presented by people from every part of the “third world”; among which were Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez and Cardinal Dery of Ghana. In 1976 the Conference of Ontario Bishops along with the Canadian conference of Religious Women approached Father Gervais to provide a written course of studies in Sacred Scripture for the Church at large, but especially for priests and religious women. This is when Fr. Gervais began to write Journey, a set of forty lessons on the Bible. He was armed with a treasure of information from all the teachers and witnesses to the faith that had lectured at Devine Word. He was assisted by a large number of enthusiastic collaborators: all the people who had made presentations at Divine Word and provided materials and a team of great assistants, also at Divine Word Centre. The work was finished just as Father Gervais was ordained an auxiliary bishop of London (1980). He subsequently was made Bishop of Sault Saint Marie Diocese, and after four years, Archbishop of Ottawa (1989). He retired in 2007, and at the time of this writing, he is enjoying retirement.

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      Journey -Lesson 15 - Prophets in Exile (2) - Marcel Gervais

      Journey- Lesson 15 Prophets in Exile (2)

      by Marcel Gervais, Emeritus Archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Canada

      Nihil Obstat: Michael T. Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

      Imprimatur: + John M. Sherlock, Bishop of London

      London, March 31, 1980

      This content of this book was first published in 1977 as part of the JOURNEY Series By Guided Study Programs in the Catholic Faith and is now being republished in Smashwords by Emmaus Publications, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 103, Ottawa,ON, K1S 5P5, Canada on Smashwords

      Cover: ... He does not cry out or shout aloud...... (Isaiah 42:2-3).

      COPYRIGHT © Guided Study Programs ln the Catholic Faith, a division of The Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education 1977. Reproduction ln whole or ln part is Prohibited.

      ~~~~~~~~

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 I Am Doing a New Deed

      Chapter 2 M y Ways Are Not Your Ways

      Chapter 3 -Commentary on Dei Verbum, number 12 (concluded)

      Answer key to practice questions

      Self-test

      Answer key to self test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Fifteen

      About The Author

      Psalm 103

      A hymn in praise of the goodness and greatness of the Lord: he is kind, forgiving, tender and constant in his love. The psalmist's faith is based on the revelation which came through Moses (Exodus-Covenant) when the Lord showed himself to be the saviour of the oppressed (vss 6-7). The Lord has compassion, he has a feeling for the human race because he made us and knows us through and through; he therefore knows how fragile we are and he is quick to forgive and very slow to get angry (vss 8-17). This very consoling song of praise reflects many of the thoughts and attitudes of the writings we will consider in this lesson,

      Lesson Objective To describe the condition of the People late in the Exile and to describe selected themes from the message given to them by Second-Isaiah.

      Introduction

      Chapters 40 to 55 of the Book of Isaiah, because they are part of the collection of writings under the name of Isaiah (Isa 1:1), were considered for many centuries to have been written by the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, who worked in Jerusalem between 740 and 690 BC. Some 800 years ago a rabbi called Ibn Ezra doubted that Isaiah of Jerusalem could have written these chapters. In the last hundred years or so, after very careful word by word studies of Isaiah 40 to 55, scholars have come to the firm conclusion that these chapters were not written by Isaiah the prophet of Jerusalem in the eighth century. As you study these chapters, you will notice that the author is in the Exile, knows about Babylon, about Cyrus the Persian and that this author has a style, a vocabulary and a message which is very different from Isaiah. There is every sign that the writer of chapters 40 to 55 of the Book of Isaiah wrote between 550 and 530 BC, some two hundred years after Isaiah of Jerusalem. Yet there are resemblances between this author and Isaiah. It would seem that he is a disciple of the first Isaiah, writing many generations later under the influence of the great prophet.

      If it was not Isaiah, son of Amoz, of Jerusalem, who then wrote these chapters? No one knows who gave us these extraordinarily fine poems. No name is given anywhere. For lack of anything better, the author is usually called Second or Deutero Isaiah (Deutero=Second), because his writings are found in the second major section of the Book of Isaiah. The prophet who wrote these poems was probably a man, though the many feminine insights and expressions found in the prophecies make it possible that it was a woman.

      We have no convincing explanations for the fact that the prophet's name is not pre-served. It is possible that this prophet was a writer who wrote poetry for the religious meetings which took place in exile. It is also possible that this prophet had a very small following, never became famous throughout the community in exile, and that the prophecies were preserved without the name of the author. Some scholars have proposed that chapters 40 to 55 are not the work of one but of many authors representing a minority movement among the exiles. In this lesson we take the position that chapters 40 to 55 were written by one author; only a few short sections will be credited to other writers.

      In this lesson we also take the position that chapters 40 to 55 of Isaiah form two sections: section one, 40-48; section two, 49-55. The first section was written sometime between 550 and 540 BC. The second section we will maintain was written after 539. This will be explained more fully in the commentary. We want you to know, however, that some scholars hold very different positions: some claim that there is no clear order of any kind in these chapters; others hold that there is a clear organization of material. We take a sort of middle position, holding that the poems fall into two main sections as indicated above, and that beyond that no clear, convincing order can be found in the material.

      Putting aside all the questions which still do not have completely satisfactory answers, one thing is certain: chapters 40 to 55 contain some of the greatest writing to be found in the Bible. Great poetry always produces a sense of wonder; it can be read again and again and each reading will reveal something new, something deeper. In the original Hebrew, the poetry of Second-isaiah is extraordinarily beautiful; the sounds, the rhythms, the flow of thoughts create a mood and convey ideas in the manner of master poets. Even when it is translated into modern languages the beauty and warmth of Second-Isaiah comes through.

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