Volker Leppin and Vasileios Marinis discuss hypocrisy, reward systems, righteousness, and religious performance in Isaiah 58:1-9a (9b-12). The text is appointed for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, in Year A of the Revised Common Lectionary.

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Volker Leppin is Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Vasileios Marinis is Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at Yale Divinity School.

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