New Visions of Isaiah

345 Pages·1996·17.14 MB·English

by  Roy F. Melugin

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
214
Editors
David J.A. Clines
Philip R. Davies
Executive Editor
John Jarick
Editorial Board
Robert P. Carroll, Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, J. Cheryl Exum,
John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald,
Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers, Patrick D. Miller
Sheffield Academic Press
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New Visions of Isaiah
Roy F. Melugin &
Marvin A. Sweeney (eds.)
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Supplement Series 214
To
Ronald E. Clements
Copyright © 1996 Sheffield Academic Press
Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd
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Sheffield SI 19AS
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Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain
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A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
ISBN 1-85075-584-1
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 7
Abbreviations 8
List of Contributors 11
ROY F. MELUGIN
Introduction 13
Parti
is MEANING LOCATED IN 'AUTHOR' OR TEXT?
ROLF RENDTORFF
The Book of Isaiah:
A Complex Unity. Synchronic and Diachronic Reading 32
MARVIN A. SWEENEY
The Book of Isaiah as Prophetic Torah 50
GARY STANSELL
Isaiah 28-33: Blest Be the Tie that Binds (Isaiah Together) 68
CHRIS A. FRANKE
Reversals of Fortune in the Ancient Near East:
A Study of the Babylon Oracles in the Book of Isaiah 104
MARK E. BIDDLE
Lady Zion's Alter Egos:
Isaiah 47.1 -15 and 57.6-13 as Structural Counterparts 124
ROY D. WELLS, JR
'Isaiah' as an Exponent of Torah: Isaiah 56.1-8 140
6 New Visions of Isaiah
BENJAMIN D. SOMMER
Allusions and Illusions: The Unity of the Book of Isaiah in Light
of Deutero-Isaiah' s Use of Prophetic Tradition 156
Part II
Is MEANING LOCATED IN THE READER?
DAVID M. CARR
Reading Isaiah from Beginning (Isaiah 1) to End (Isaiah 65-66):
Multiple Modern Possibilities 188
KATHERYN PFISTERER DARR
No Strength to Deliver:
A Contextual Analysis of Hezekiah's Proverb In Isaiah 37.3b 219
GERALD T. SHEPPARD
The 'Scope' of Isaiah as a Book of Jewish and Christian Scriptures 257
ROY F. MELUGIN
Figurative Speech and the Reading of Isaiah 1 as Scripture 282
EDGAR W. CONRAD
Prophet, Redactor and Audience:
Reforming the Notion of Isaiah's Formation 306
Index of References 327
Index of Authors 341
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume is born in debt. The essays herein are a result of the lively
discussions of the Formation of the Book of Isaiah Seminar of the
Society of Biblical Literature. The editors of this volume are grateful to
the members of the Seminar for having stimulated the debate, much of
which is reflected in these papers. We are also grateful to David Lull and
the SBL Program Committee for their assistance to the Seminar and for
their encouragement of its scholarly work. We are especially appreciative
of the invitation by David Clines to produce this volume and for his
patient guidance during its preparation. Hearty thanks go to Paula Jonse
for her skill, hard work, and good humor in preparing the manuscript to
be sent to the printer.
A special debt is owed to Ronald Clements, whose writings have been
important in the Seminar's discussions and whose leadership in the
founding of the Seminar was invaluable. We dedicate these essays to him
as a sign of our respect and affection.
Marvin A. Sweeney
Roy F. Melugin
ABBREVIATIONS
AB Anchor Bible
AcOr Acta orientalia
AnBib Analecta biblica
ANET J.B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
AT ANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments
ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BBB Bonner biblische Beitrage
BDB F. Brown, S.R. Driver and C.A. Briggs, Hebrew and English
Lexicon of the Old Testament
BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium
BHT Beitrage zur historischen Theologie
Bib Biblica
BibRev Bible Review
BibOr Biblica et orientalia
BKAT Biblischer Kommentar: Altes Testament
BN Biblische Notizen
BR Biblical Research
BWANT Beitrage zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament
BZAW Beihefte zur ZAW
CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary
CB Q Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Monograph Series
ConBOT Coniectanea biblica, Old Testament
CREST Compendia rerum iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum
CTA A. Herdner, Corpus des tablettes en cuneiformes alphabetiques
decouvertes a Ras Shamra-Ugarit de 1929 a 1939
EBib Etudes bibliques
ETL Ephemerides theologicae lovanienses
ETR Etudes theologiques et religieuses
FB Forschung zur Bibel
FOTL The Forms of the Old Testament Literature
FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen
Testaments
FzAT Forschung zum Alten Testament
HKAT Handkommentar zum Alten Testament
HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs
HTR Harvard Theological Review
Abbreviations 9
HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual
IB Interpreter's Bible
ICC International Critical Commentary
IDE G.A. Buttrick (ed.), Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible
Int Interpretation
ITC International Theological Commentary
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
IPS Jewish Publication Society
JQR Jewish Quarterly Review
JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
KTU M. Dietrich, O. Lonetz, and J. Sanmartin (eds.), Die keil-
alphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit
NCB New Century Bible
NICOT New International Commentary on the Old Testament
OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis
OBT Overtures to Biblical Theology
OIL Old Testament Library
OTS Oudtestamentische Studien
RB Revue biblique
SBL Society of Biblical Literature
SBLDS SBL Dissertation Series
SBLSP SBL Seminar Papers
SBS Stuttgarter Bibelstudien
SET Studies in Biblical Theology
SJT Scottish Journal of Theology
SPB Studia postbiblica
SSN Studia semitica neerlandica
TB Torch Bible Commentaries
TBS The Biblical Seminar
TBu Theologische Biicherei
TDNT G. Kittel and G. Friedrich (eds.), Theological Dictionary of the
New Testament
THAT E. Jenni and C. Westermann (eds.), Theologisches
Handworterbuch zum Alten Testament
ThWAT G.J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren (eds.), Theologisches
Worterbuch zum Alten Testament
TLZ Theologische Literaturzeitung
uuA Uppsala universitetsarsskrift
VT Vetus Testamentum
VTSup Vetus Testamentum, Supplements
WBC Word Biblical Commentary
WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen
Testament
ZAW Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
ZBK Zurcher Bibelkommentare
ZTK Zeitschrift fur Theologie und Kirche