First Isaiah / by J.J.M. Roberts ; edited by Peter Machinist. [electronic resource]

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1:1. Heading -- 1:2-20. The covenant lawsuit -- 1.21-28. The city of God : renewal of a symbol -- 1:29-31. The sacred groves -- 2:1. A second heading -- 2:2-22. The future exaltation of Zion : a warning against the North -- 3:1-15. Judgment on Judah -- 3:16-4:1. The haughty women of Zion -- 4:2-6. The purified Jerusalem -- 5:1-7. The song of the vineyard -- 5:8-24. The Hoy-Oracles -- 10:1-4; 5:25-30. Two misplaced pericopes -- 6:1-9:7 (9:6 Heb.). A collection of Isaiah's memoirs -- 9:7-20 (Eng. 9:8-21) + 5:25-30. Judgment on Israel -- 10:5-34. Judgment on Assyria, God's arrogant tool -- 11:1-10. The shoot of Jesse -- 11:11-16. The reunification of Judah and Ephraim -- 12:1-6. A hymn of praise for salvation -- 13:1-22. Yahweh summons the Medes to punish Babylon -- 14:1-4. Introduction to the Taunt song -- 14:4b-21. The Taunt song -- 14:22-23. An exilic addition -- 14:24-27. God's plan for Assyria -- 14:8-32. The rod that smote Philistia -- 15-16. An oracle over Moab -- 17.1-14. Oracles against Damascus and Ephraim -- 18.1-7. An oracle against Nubia -- 19.1-25. An extended oracleor oracles against Egypt -- 20.1-6. The Ashdod affair -- 21.1-10, 11-12, 13-17. Three disputed oracles -- 22:1-14. The collapse of the Babylonian front and the sin of Jerusalem's elite -- 22:15-25. Shebna and Eliakim -- 23:1-18. The oracle against Tyre -- 24-27. The little Isaiah apocalypse -- 18:1-6. An early oracle against the North -- 28:7-22. The extension of that oracle against the Judean leaders -- 28:23-29. The parable of the farmer -- 29:1-8. Yahweh's punishment and deliverance of Jerusalem -- 29:9-14. Willful blindness and God's marvelous work -- 29:15-16. The folly of Judah's counselors -- 29:17-24. A reworked promise to the North -- 30:1-5. Against God's rebellious children who make a treaty with Egypt -- 30:6-7. Oracle about the beasts of the Negeb -- 30:8-17. Writing down the prophecy as a witness for the future -- 30:18-26. Yahweh's promise of a better future for Zioin -- 30:27-33. Yahweh comes in fiery judgment -- 31:1-9. A composite oracle against reliance on Egypt -- 32_1-8. The transformed society of the rulers and ruled in the age of salvation -- 32:9-29. Against carefree women adn the judgment and deliverance to come -- 33:1-24. An Isaianic elaboration of the Zion tradition -- 34-35 -- 34:1-17. Oracle against Edom -- 35:1-10. The return of God's people to Zion -- 36-39. Stories about Hezekiah and Isaiah -- 36:1-37:8. Sennacherib's campaign against Hezekiah -- 37:9-38. Sennacherib's letter to Hezekiah and Isaiah's response -- 38:1-8, 21. Hezekiah's illness and cure -- 38:9-20. The Psalm of Hezekiah -- 39:1-8. Merodach-Baladan's embassy to Hezekiah.

The eighth century BCE Isaiah of Jerusalem, the so-called First Isaiah, is one of the most important theological voices in the Bible. J.J.M. Roberts takes a classical historical-critical approach to his interpretation of this material, making good use of his broad comparative knowledge of ancient Near Eastern historical and religious sources. In light of Isaiah's very long prophetic ministry of at least thirty-eight years, and perhaps as long as fifty-three years, Roberts also suggests Isaiah often reedited older oracles from early in his ministry to address new, though somewhat analogous situations, albeit with different players, later in his ministry, without erasing telltale signs of the material's earlier origin. In many cases, this suggestion provides a better explanation for glaring inconsistencies in an apparently connected text than the common fragmentation of the text that attributes such inconsistencies to later editors who either misunderstood or intentionally altered Isaiah-s message for their own purposes. -- Amazon.

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