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- Title: How is the Prophet Isaiah Present in the Latter Half of the Book? the Logic of Chapters 40-66 Within the Book of Isaiah.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 1996
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
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It is an exciting time in the study of the book of Isaiah. In an effort to comprehend the significance of the book as a whole--if such there be--readers are having to go to school again and ask very fundamental questions. (1) Some older students insist from time to time that a shift of focus is wrong-headed and only indicates a failure to follow through more rigorously with the original methods of form and redaction criticism. Others proceed apace as though the shift toward reading Isaiah as a full collection were not taking place at all, or at most involved a final adjustment or two once work on independent sections had been satisfactorily completed. In this case, one might ask if the reflection that results is still largely determined by the persistence of an approach tied to investigating Isaiah as three discrete, evolving sections--even ones that now might potentially have something to do with one another. (2) In any event, for all readers of Isaiah it is a time of constant course adjustment, as one master theory is proposed here, (3) while there several alternative and more modest essays are set forth. (4) A shift toward "unified" readings has produced more, not less, in terms of exegetical proposals for comprehending that unity. Modern hermeneutical theory has reminded us of the commonsense warning that our exegetical findings are likely to be determined by the questions we are asking of the text. One reading the Pentateuch in search of longitudinal sources will be inclined to read the statement in Exod 6:3b not as a circumstantial clause in a larger unit concerned with how God intends to make himself known in the events of the exodus (Exod 6:5-7) but instead as confirmation that one source disagreed with another over how God had theretofore made use of his proper name. To ask, How is Isaiah present in chaps. 40-66? could be to raise a question extraneous to the book's own presentation, and one that only proceeds from the modern critical preoccupation with what is or is not authentic in this book, so far as Isaianic authorship is concerned. However, two warrants for asking the question can be put forward. First, the question is by no means a modern one only, but formed part of the deliberations of so-called precritical exegesis, even when in a muted or more occasional guise. Second, the question need not involve anything like a concern for what is "authentic" in Isaiah (what did such a term ever really mean?), but instead only seeks to understand how or if the figure of Isaiah is maintained in these twenty-seven chapters.
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