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Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations – Page vii
Preface – Page ix
Chapter 1 Isaiah, The Prophet of Hope: Isaiah 8:16 – Page 1
Chapter 2 The Donkey and Its Crib: Isaiah 1:3 – Page 9
Chapter 3 The Mountain of the Lord’s House: Isaiah 2:1–5 – Page 13
Chapter 4 The Song of the Vineyard: Isaiah 5:1–7 – Page 16
Chapter 5 The Sign of Immanuel: The Rise of Assyria: Isaiah 7:14 – Page 24
Chapter 6 The Sign of Immanuel: Isaiah 7:4 – Page 29
Chapter 7 The Virgin Shall Conceive: Isaiah 7:14 – Page 34
Chapter 8 The Birth of Immanuel: Isaiah 7:14 – Page 39
Chapter 9 The Presence of Immanuel: Isaiah 8:10 – Page 44
Chapter 10 Immanuel: God Is With Us: Matthew 1:23 – Page 50
Chapter 11 The Child Immanuel: Isaiah 7:10–16 – Page 56
Chapter 12 Isaiah’s Wife: Isaiah 8:3 – Page 59
Chapter 13 The Land That Is in Distress: Isaiah 9:1 – Page 63
Chapter 14 The People Living in Deep Darkness: Isaiah 9:1–2 – Page 68
Chapter 15 “You Have Increased Their Joy”: Isaiah 9:3 – Page 72
Chapter 16 The Peaceful Kingdom: Isaiah 11:1–10 – Page 75
Chapter 17 The Desert Highway: Isaiah 35:1–10 – Page 79
Chapter 18 Deutero-Isaiah: The Prophet of the Exile: Isaiah 40:1–11 – Page 82
Chapter 19 Hope for the Future: Isaiah 40:1–2 – Page 88
Chapter 20 The Way of the Lord: Isaiah 40:3 – Page 95
Chapter 21 God’s Faithfulness and Human Commitment: Isaiah 40:6 – Page 100
Chapter 22 Israel’s Life in Exile: Isaiah 40:27 – Page 104
Chapter 23 Fear and Trust: Isaiah 41:13 – Page 110
Chapter 24 Israel in Babylon: Isaiah 52:4 – Page 113
Chapter 25 The Profanation of God’s Name: Isaiah 52:3–26 – Page 120
Chapter 26 The Punishment of the Wicked: Isaiah 66:24 – Page 127
Bibliography – Page 143
Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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Thanks Dr. Mariottini for the clarification. I agree with you that Isaiah’s wife functioned as a prophetess in the sense you describe here. My reservation, rather, lies in how one interprets the “guild” of prophets in Isaiah 8:16. I am wary of extrapolating too much from this one phrase, as many have done. Regardless, I think many will find this post (and series) helpful.
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Andrew,
My post was not a criticism of what you wrote. Rather, I recognized that I took for granted that readers would know the background of my statement. Your post forced me to realize that at times, we take too much for granted. I am grateful to you for calling my attention to that weakness in my post.
Claude Mariottini
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what is the name of Isiah’s wife?
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Dennis,
The Bible does not give us the name of Isiah’s wife. The Bible only mentions that Isaiah’s wife was a prophetess.
Claude Mariottini
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Can you comment as to why it is assumed that Isaiah was married to this woman?
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Stan,
Thank you for your question. The answer to your question is found in the text of Isaiah.
In Isaiah 8:2 the prophet mentions the reliable witnesses and the priest Uriah. This may refer to a legal ceremony and scholars believe that this is either a reference to Isaiah’s (second?) marriage or to an affirmation that his wife would have a son and that he would be called “Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isa 8:1).
Then Isaiah “ I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son” (Isa 8:3). This indicates that the prophetess was Isaiah’s wife. She may or may not be the mother of Isaiah’s first son, “Shear-jashub” (Isa 7:3). Both sons had prophetic names. Isaiah and his children were signs for Israel: “I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts” (Isa 8:18).
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Claude Mariottini
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Thanks for your reply Claude. I am not convinced however that this can be concluded. It seems also that Isaiah 8:2 is written in the first person on behalf of the Lord, the witnesses relating to testimony of His in relation to judgment on Judah.
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Stan,
In trying to understand Isaiah 8:3 and his relation to the prophetess, we have three options:
1. The prophetess was the mother of Isaiah’s two sons: Shear-jashub, (Isa 7:3) and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isa 8:1).
2. The prophetess was the mother of Maher-shalal-hash-baz, but not the mother of Shear-jashub. Then she would have been Isaiah’s second wife.
3. The third option, the one you are proposing, is that the prophetess was not Isaiah’s wife. This means that Isaiah had a son from a woman that was not his wife.
The third option, the one proposed by some scholars, is just not acceptable. I doubt that Isaiah had sex with a woman that was not his wife. This was unacceptable in Israelite society.
Claude Mariottini
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Thanks for such a clear and referenced explanation but I remain with the question on why most people who claim to be prophets nowadays claim their wives to be prophetess as well .
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James,
I have a big problem with this too. I believe there are very few prophets today. Those who call themselves prophets probably are just anointing themselves as prophets when they are not.
Claude Mariottini
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This was helpful in putting together a teaching about what it must have been like to be married to Isaiah.
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Myra,
Thank you for your comment. I am planning to write a book about the many great women of the Old Testament.
If you look at the Archive section of my blog, you will find several studies on the women of the Old Testament.
Claude Mariottini
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Hope the you told is already published regarding women prophet in OT.
Cld u pls send me a hard copy.
Johnson p. George
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Johnson,
Thank you for your comment. The book has not been published yet. I hope to publish it in 2023. In 2022 I worked on my book Divine Violence and the Character of God. The book was published in February 2022.
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Claude Mariottini
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