One voice on Marvin L. Chaney, “Whose Sour Grapes? The Addressees of Isaiah 5:1-7 in the Light of Political Economy”, Semeia 87 (1999): 105-122. Opens with a short recap of episode 4. About forty minutes.
Covered: who Chaney is; the eighth-century shift to export wine and oil, land consolidation, survival loans and foreclosure; the archaeology of presses, towers and royal jars; vineyard as a fighting word; Isaiah 3:12-15 and 5:8-10 as the control texts; the juridical parable as a genre for kings; the word study on yoshev, ish Yehudah and beit Yisrael; the conclusion that the song trapped the two royal houses, not the nation; and how later editors nationalised it. Closes with Gottwald’s redactional alternative, the commentary tradition, the archaeology since, and what it does to a sermon.
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