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Isaiah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ Isaiah From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search   Isaiah's Lips Anointed with Fire by Benjamin West (1782, Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery).For other uses, see Isaiah (disambiguation).Isaiah (Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ, Standard Yəšaʿyáhu Tiberian Yəšaʿăyāhû ; Greek: Ἠσαΐας, Ēsaiās ; Arabic: اشعیاء, Ash-ee-yaa ; "Salvation of/is YHWH") is the main figure in the Biblical Book of Isaiah, and is traditionally considered to be its author. He was an 8th-century BC Judean prophet who declared that all the world belonged to God and that God will destroy it. "The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word." (Isaiah 24:3). Isaiah therefore warns the people of the world to turn back to God.Contents1 Bible2 Rabbinic literature3 Critical scholarship4 References5 External links//[edit] BibleThe prophet Isaiah was born in the 8th century BC to a man named Amoz (Isaiah 1:1). He married a woman known as "the prophetess" (8:3). Why she was called this is not certain. Some believe she may have carried out a prophetic ministry in her own right, like Deborah (Judges 4:4) and Huldah (2 Kings 22:14-20). Others maintain, however, that it was simply because she was the wife of "the prophet" (38:1), and not because she was herself endowed with the prophetic gift. Isaiah had two sons by her, who bore symbolic names (8:18) - Shear-jashub, 'Remnant will return' (7:3; see 10:22, 'Only a remnant will return') and Maher-shalal-hash-baz, 'Pillage hastens, looting speeds' (8:1-4). The Book of Isaiah.He prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah (or Azariah), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (1:1), the kings of Judah. Uzziah reigned fifty-two years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his career a few years before Uzziah's death, probably in the 740s BC. He lived till the fourteenth year of Hezekiah (who died 698 BC), and may have been contemporary for some years with Manasseh. Thus Isaiah may have prophesied for the long period of at least forty-four years.In early youth Isaiah must have been moved by the invasion of Israel by the Assyrian monarch Tiglath-Pileser III (2 Kings 15:19); and again, twenty years later, when he had already entered on his office, by the invasion of Tiglath-Pileser and his career of conquest. Ahaz, king of Judah, at this crisis refused to co-operate with the kings of Israel and Syria in opposition to the Assyrians, and was on that account attacked and defeated by Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Israel (2 Kings 16:5; 2 Chronicles 28:5-6). Ahaz, thus humbled, sided with Assyria, and sought the aid of Tiglath-Pileser against Israel and Syria. The consequence was that Rezin and Pekah were conquered and many of the people carried captive to Assyria (2 Kings 15:29, 16:9; 1 Chronicles 5:26). The Prophet Isaiah, by Ugolino di Nerio, (c. 1317-1327, National Gallery, London).Soon after this Shalmaneser V determined wholly to subdue the kingdom of Israel, Samaria was taken and destroyed (722 BC). So long as Ahaz reigned, the kingdom of Judah was unmolested by the Assyrian power; but on his accession to the throne, Hezekiah, who was encouraged to rebel "against the king of Assyria" (2 Kings 18:7), entered into an alliance with the king of Egypt (Isaiah 30:2-4). This led the king of Assyria to threaten the king of Judah, and at length to invade the land. Sennacherib (701 BC) led a powerful army into Judah. Hezekiah was reduced to despair, and submitted to the Assyrians (2 Kings 18:14-16). But after a brief interval war broke out again, and again Sennacherib led an army into Judah, one detachment of which threatened Jerusalem (Isaiah 36:2-22; 37:8). Isaiah on that occasion encouraged Hezekiah to resist the Assyrians (37:1-7), whereupon Sennacherib sent a threatening letter to Hezekiah, which he "spread before the lord" (37:14). Russian icon of the Prophet Isaiah, 18th century (iconostasis of Transfiguration church, Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia).“21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: This is what the lord, the god of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,22 this is the word the lord has spoken against him: The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.23 Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!”According to the account in Kings (and its derivative account in Chronicles) the judgment of God now fell on the Assyrian army. "Like Xerxes in Greece, Sennacherib never recovered from the shock of the disaster in Judah. He made no more expeditions against either southern Palestine or Egypt."The remaining years of Hezekiah's reign were peaceful (2 Chr 32:23-29). Isaiah probably lived to its close, and possibly into the reign of Manasseh, but the time and manner of his death are not specified in either the Bible or recorded history. There is a tradition that he suffered martyrdom in the pagan reaction in the time of Manasseh. Both Jewish and Christian traditions state that he was killed by being sawed in half. Some interpreters believe that this is what is referred to in the New Testament verseHebrews 11:37, which states that some prophets were "sawn in two". It is also mentioned in the book of The Martyrdom of Isaiah that he lived into the days of Manasseh, and was also sawn in half with a wooden saw.[edit] Rabbinic literatureMain article: Isaiah in Rabbinic LiteratureAccording to the Rabbinic literature, Isaiah was a descendant of Judah and Tamar (Sotah 10b). His father was a prophet and the brother of King Amaziah (Talmud tractate Megillah 15a).[1][edit] Critical scholarship Prophet Isaiah Praying at Night (10th-century Byzantine miniature from the Paris Psalter).In the 1700s, the break between the first part of Isaiah (Is. 1-39) versus the latter half of the book (Is. 40-66) caught the eye of critical scholars Döderlein (1789) and Eichhorn (1783), who advocated a source-critical reading of the book, seeing chapters 40-66 as later, post-exilic additions, or even totally separate works artificially appended to the earlier composition. The term "Deutero-Isaiah" described the anonymous later writer, to whom some ascribed some redactionary roles as well. Some more recent commentators have further divided 40-66 by adding a third Isaiah, Trito-Isaiah, who wrote 56-66. The provenance of the text in the latter half of the book seemed to support a post-exilic timeframe, with direct references to Cyrus, King of Persia (44:28; 45:1, 13), a lament for the ruined temple, and other details. Also, the tone of the two halves is different; the first seems to warn erring Judah of impending divine judgment through foreign conquest, while the second seems to provide comfort to a broken people.Other scholars, such as Margalioth (1964) challenged the view of multiple authorship by pointing out the remarkable unity of the book Isaiah in terms of theme, message, and vocabulary. Even certain verbal formulas unique to Isaiah, such as "the mouth of the Lord has spoken," appears in both halves of Isaiah but in no other Hebrew prophetic literature. While clear differences between the two halves of the book were evident, thematically the two halves are remarkably similar, certainly more similar to each other than to any other existing prophetic literature.Since the late 20th century, trends in critical scholarship have focused on synchronic approaches, which advocate a whole-text reading, rather than the traditional historical-critical diachronic approaches, which tend to be directed at taking the text apart, looking for sources, redactional seams, etc. Inspired by Hebrew Bible literary criticism done by Robert Alter, scholars have since tended to circumscribe authorship and historical-critical questions and look at the final form of the book as a literary whole, a product of the post-exilic era which is characterized by literary and thematic unity.[edit] References^ Isaiah at Jewish Encyclopedia This article needs additional citations for verification.Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. 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(June 2008)[edit] External links Wikibooks' Bible (King James)/Isaiah has more about this subject:Book of Isaiah in the King James BibleSermons on IsaiahIsaiah (Isaias) at the Catholic Encyclopedia[1] Avraham Gileadi's new translation and commentary on IsaiahProphet Isaiah Orthodox icon and synaxarionv • d • eProphets of Judaism & Christianity in the Hebrew BibleAbraham · Isaac · Jacob · Moses (rl) · Aaron · Miriam · Eldad & Medad · The seventy elders of Israel · Joshua · Phinehas Deborah · Samuel · Saul · Saul's men · David · Jeduthun · Solomon | Gad · Nathan · Ahiyah · Elijah · Elisha | Isaiah (rl) · Jeremiah · EzekielHosea · Joel · Amos · Obadiah · Jonah (rl) · Micah · Nahum · Habakkuk · Zephaniah · Haggai · Zechariah · Malachi Shemaiah · Iddo · Azariah · Hanani · Jehu · Micaiah · Jahaziel · Eliezer · Zechariah ben Jehoiada · Oded · Huldah · UriahJudaism:Sarah (rl) · Rachel· Rebecca · Joseph · Eli · Elkanah · Hannah (mother of Samuel) · Abigail · Amoz (father of Isaiah) · Beeri (father of Hosea) · Hilkiah (father of Jeremiah) · Shallum (uncle of Jeremiah) · Hanamel (cousin of Jeremiah) · Buzi · Mordecai · Esther · (Baruch)Christianity:Abel · Enoch (ancestor of Noah) · Daniel (rl)Non-Jewish: Kenan · Noah (rl) · Eber · Bithiah · Beor · Balaam · Balak · Job · Eliphaz · Bildad · Zophar · ElihuThis article incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah" Categories: Prophets of the Hebrew Bible | 8th century BC people | Isaiah | Hebrew Bible people | Old Testament saintsHidden category: Articles needing additional references from June 2008 Views Article Discussion Edit this page History Personal tools Log in / create account if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha(); Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Interaction About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia Donate to Wikipedia Help Toolbox What links here Related changesUpload fileSpecial pages Printable version Permanent linkCite this page Languages العربية Català Česky Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Français Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית Basa Jawa Nederlands 日本語 Norsk (bokmål) Polski Português Română Русский Simple English Slovenčina Српски / Srpski Suomi Svenska Українська ייִדיש   This page was last modified on 15 October 2008, at 19:41. 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