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Claude Mariottini
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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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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fitzmyer, Joseph A. Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament. Missoula: Scholars Press, 1974.
Sheldon, Blank H. “Isaiah 52:5 and the Profanation of the Name.” Hebrew Union College Annual 25 (1954): 1-8.
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Excellent article. Clarified a lot of things for me.
One minor detail. The Septuagint authors were not “following” the Masoretic Text. The MT was complied roughly 1,000 years after the Septuagint.
(Probably somewhere between 700 years and 1200 years later IMHO. The earliest text of the MT that we have is 9th century. The earliest fragments of the LXX that we have is 1st century. Taking 600 – 900 AD as a nominal date range for the MT compilation and 300-100 BC as a nominal date range for the LXX translation, one gets 900 + 300 = 1200 years for the upper limit and 100+600 = 700 years for the lower limit.)
It would be interesting to know how the MT and the LXX compare with the Dead Sea Scrolls. The DSS may have been using texts that predate the Septuagint.
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John,
You are correct. The Septuagint could not follow the Masoretic Text because the MT was put together centuries after the Septuagint. I will make a correction to my post.
There are three Dead Sea Scrolls of Isaiah: Isaiah A, Isaiah B, and Isaiah C. When I was working on my PhD, we compared Isaiah A with the Hebrew text (MT) of Isaiah. Our conclusion was the Isaiah A was very similar to the Hebrew text that appears in MT. This pre-MT text was probably the text the translators of the Septuagint used.
Thank you for calling my attention to the mistake I made in the post.
Claude Mariottini
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