An intersting item off Agade:Interesting indeed, thank you. But see a few points below:
Yigal Levin
The earliest source we have on that custom is the New Testa! ment.
According to the narrative in Luke (4:16-21), Jesus returns to h is
hometown, Nazareth and, on the Sabbath, he goes to the synagogue
where he reads from the Torah. He is then given the Book of Isaiah. ...
... Similar evidence can be found in Acts (13:15) where the narrative
refers to a Jewish community in Asia Minor (in the vicinity of
Antalya in Turkey).
...
As we can learn from the lists in the Geniza, th! ere were some
communities where chapter 61 was indeed read as a haftarah,
although it should be recalled that the Jews of the Geniza period
lived in Egypt, which was under Muslim rule. They were not very
familiar with or troubled by Christians' faith and customs, ...
... Thus, all of the customs related to the
haftarah readings omit the passage in Isaiah whose focus is the
well-known verse, Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son"
(7:14), because it is the foundation of the Christian belief in the
concept of the Virgin Mary and the virgin birth of Jesus. The term
"virgin" is translated as such in the Septaguint and that is how
Christians explicate the verse to this very day.
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