Isaiah 1:2-20 Bibliography

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A striking example of prophetic poetry, Isa 1:2-20, is the object of study of this essay. Features of rhetoric and composition and indicia of author, audience, original setting, and communicative intent are examined first. Prosody receives attention next, along with text-critical questions, semantic, syntactic, morphological, and sonic parallelisms. The conclusions of the analysis are twofold. First of all, Isa 1:2-20 is a complex unity on the rhetorical and prosodic levels. The various facets of Isa 1:2-20 as rhetoric and as poetry cooperate to convey a message and compel a response. Secondly, Isa 1:2-20 conforms to a text model of ancient Hebrew verse worked out over a large portion of the extant poetic corpus. In a final excursus, an overview of the history of interpretation shows how Isa 1:2-20 has been read as a subunity of a larger complex, a unity of its own, and as a mine from which to quarry materials for overarching metanarratives. A text model is a desired outcome of formal analysis. A model for a genus of texts may be compared to a sieve. Species of the genus should pass through it. Species of other genera should not. The intuitive form literary analysis most often takes requires the check a text model provides. The model to be tested here may be summarized as follows. Ancient Hebrew poetry is characterized by a series of continuously repeated forms. The central form we call a line. It consists of two to three parts. A part we call a verset. A set of lines, two to three, we call a strophe. A verset ends in a pause, however minor; a line in a stronger pause, or a full stop; a strophe most often in a full stop. Semantic, prosodic, syntactic, morphological, and sonic parallelisms recur across versets, lines, and strophes. Prosodic parallelisms alone are obligatory: a verset of two to three stress units is unfailingly followed by another verset of two to three stress units, until a poem's conclusion. A prosodic hierarchy of "twos and threes" structures a poem. Two to three stress units form a verset, two to three versets a line, two to three lines a strophe, two to three strophes a stanza, and two to three stanzas a poem or section thereof. A poem, if it contains more than 10 lines, typically consists of 12, 18, 22, or 28 lines, or combinations thereof. Among the Psalms, 14 lines is also a common length. 1 According to the text model test run here, that is how ancient Hebrew poetry works. The analysis of Isa 1:2-20, it will be seen, bears this out. It is not enough, of course, to offer a discussion of a single presumed example of Hebrew poetry in order to substantiate a text model that seeks to describe regularities characteristic of the entire poetic corpus. But one has to start somewhere. Isa 1:2-20 illustrates the challenges one faces in the analysis of ancient Hebrew verse.

Literary Units in Isaiah 1, 2023

This essay finds its premise on the separate literary units that constitute Proto-Isaiah by concentrating on Isaiah 1.2-28 as a pericope. It is written in the effort to provide the basis for understanding the subsequent chapters of the book by revealing the direct malpractice of the judges within the royal court towards the nations' most vulnerable. Key phrases of reform are learn to do good, seek justice, rebuke the oppressor, defend the fatherless and plead for the widow, v.17. The political and theological demise of the royal court of Judah on these points results in Yhwh's reluctance to hear the judges in their approach of worship. In keeping with the literary and vocational context towards the judges, Yhwh's rebuke comes via legal terminology in seeking their restoration. Scope The view put forward in this essay of the first chapter is, a later composition being divided into five separate literary units or specifically, five separate oracles: v.2-3, v.4-9, v.10-17, v.18-20 and v.21-28, while v.1 acts as a superscription and v.29-31 appear to be a disruption to the contextual nature of the above in relation to the theme of justice, since this unit deals with the religious practice of worship within sacred groves. 1 Although the first chapter belongs to the

This paper contains an English explanation of a version of the Hebrew text of Isaiah 1-12 based on BHS with emendations proposed by the first two volumes of the International Critical Commentary on Isaiah by Professor H.G.M. Williamson. Volume 1 (Isaiah 1-5) was published in 2006, and Volume 2 (Isaiah 6-12) will be published in February 2018. The paper contains links to six different views of the Hebrew text.

Within the most influential book in the course of history is “the vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz.” This is the book of Isaiah — the epitome of prophetic eloquence. Isaiah uses alliteration and parallelism to prophesy of God, the Holy One of Israel, who will save His people. Isaiah is a compelling work challenging critics to reconsider predictive prophecies. This introduction to the book of Isaiah searches for a compelling plea to challenge scholarship to reconsider its approach to Isaiah. The methodological approach of this introduction notes the link of ancient witnesses to Isaian authorship. This approach also examines the structure of Isaiah’s text compared to its theological messages. By affirming Isaiah’s textual background, scholarship can cross-examine the suppositions of historical criticism. The conclusion will result with either a growth of complex ideas or a simplified understanding of facts.

2010

The aim of this article is to represent conclusions for scholarly exegesis from recent developments in the field of the prophets, especially those pertaining to the Book of Isaiah. In order to do this, the author will pay attention in this article to the following aspects: (1) The prophet's book before the prophet's word; (2) The prophet as authority of the book; (3) Deutero-Isaiah: from hypothesis to author personality; (4) An anonymous prophet? The critical objections against the Deutero-Isaiah hypothesis; (5) The figure of the prophet and the redaction-critical research of Isa 40-55; (6) The temple-singer hypothesis as alternative: from the individual to the collective; (7

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2018

In: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 42.3 (2018), pp. 363-390. This article argues that Isaiah's so-called ‘refrain poem’ (Kehrvergedicht) in Isa. 9.7–20 is a composite text, going back to two early prophecies with different concerns. Isaiah 9.7–17* focused originally on the arrogant refusal of the divine word, while Isa. 9.18–20* reflected on the chaotic social circumstances in Samaria in the eighth century. The refrains in vv. 9,11cd, 16ef and 20cd were added to these two already connected prophecies at a later stage. The theological summary in v. 12 is yet another addition, closely affiliated with 5.24–25. Unlike v. 12, the refrains do not have the repentance of Israel in view, nor its final destruction, but the fall of Assyria in Isa. 10.5–15, 24–27. The refrains support the theory that the Isaianic collection was formed by means of reusing, restructuring and reinterpreting earlier material. Web: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0309089216690385

Review of Biblical Literature, 2020

Focusing on some areas such as grammar, syntax, semantics, textual criticism, pragmatics, and literary devices, this paper presents an exegetical analysis of Isaiah 1:1-9. The selected text this paper presents is based on the Masoretic Text, and for reader’s convenience (since a single verse is extensively discussed below), a verse-by-verse text analysis is provided throughout this paper.

Horizons in Biblical Theology, 2013