Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah: Studies of an Interpretive Tradition

498 Pages·1997·47.275 MB·English

by  Craig C. Broyles, Craig A. Evans

Writing & Reading the Scroll of Isaiah
Studies of an Interpretive Tradition
Volume One
Edited by
Craig C. Broyles
& Craig A. Evans

WRITING AND READING THE SCROLL OF ISAIAH
SUPPLEMENTS
TO
VETUS TESTAMENTUM
EDITED BY
J.A. EMERTON - H.M. BARSTAD - PHYLLIS A. BIRD
R.P. GORDON - A. HURVITZ - A. VAN DER KOOIJ - A. LEMAIRE
R. SMEND - J.C. V ANDERKAM - H.G.M. WILUAMSON
VOLUME LXX,l
FORMATION AND INTERPRETATION
OF OLD TESTAMENT LITERATURE
1,1
EDITED BY
CRAIG A. EVANS AND PETER W. FLINT
TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY
Langlfry, British Columbia
WRITING AND READING
THE SCROLL OF ISAIAH
Studies oj an Interpretive Tradition
EDITED BY
CRAIG C. BROYLES
AND
CRAIG A. EVANS
VOLUME ONE
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1997
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CONTENTS
Preface ......................................... ix
Abbreviations ................... .................. xi
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... xix
VOLUME ONE
PART ONE
THE FORMATION AND LEITMOTIFS OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
EDGAR W. CONRAD
Reading Isaiah and the Twelve as Prophetic Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN
Planned PeoplelPlanned Book? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
ROY F. MELUGIN
The Book of Isaiah and the Construction of Meaning .......... 39
YEHOSHUA GITAY
Why Metaphors?
A Study of the Texture of Isaiah ........................ 57
JOHN BARTON
Ethics in the Book of Isaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ROBERT P. CARROLL
Blindsight and the Vision Thing:
Blindness and Insight in the Book of Isaiah ................ 79
JOHN J. SCHMITT
The City as Woman in Isaiah 1-39 ...................... 95
J. KENNETH KUNTZ
The Form, Location, and Function of Rhetorical
Questions in Deutero-Isaiah .......................... 121
TRYGGVEN.D.METTINGER
In Search of the Hidden Structure:
YHWH as King in Isaiah 40-55 ........................ 143
JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP
The Servant and the Servants in Isaiah
and the Formation of the Book ........................ 155
VI WRITING AND READING TIlE SCROLL OF ISAIAH
JOHN N. OSWALT
Righteousness in Isaiah: A Study of the Function of
Chapters 56-66 in the Present Structure of the Book. . . . . . . . . 177
vnLL~L.HOLLADAY
Was Trito-Isaiah Deutero-Isaiah After All? ............... 193
ODIL HANNES STECK
Autor undloder Redaktor in Jesaja 56-66 ................. 219
PART TWO
ORACLES AND PASSAGES
HUGH G. M. WILL~SON
Relocating Isaiah 1:2-9 .............................. 263
JAMES LIMBURG
Swords to Plowshares: Text and Contexts ................. 279
JOHN T. WILLIS
Isaiah 2:2-5 and the Psalms of Zion ..................... 295
MILLARD C. LIND
Political Implications ofIsaiah 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 317
JOSEPH JENSEN
Helel ben Shal;lar (Isaiah 14:12-15) in Bible and Tradition ..... 339
JOHN DAY
The Dependence of Isaiah 26: 13-27: 11 on Hosea
13:4-14:10 and its Relevance to Some Theories
of the Redaction of the "Isaiah Apocalypse" ............... 357
WILLEM A. M. BEUKEN
Isaiah 30: A Prophetic Oracle Transmitted in Two
Successive Paradigms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 369
CRAIG C. BROYLES
The Citations of Yahweh in Isaiah 44:26-28 ............... 399
DWIGHT W. VAN WINKLE
An Inclusive Authoritative Text in Exclusive
Communities ..................................... 423
RONALD E. CLEMENTS
"Arise, shine; for your light has come"
A Basic Theme of the Isaianic Tradition ................. 441
MARVIN A. SWEENEY
Prophetic Exegesis in Isaiah 65-66 ..................... 455
CONTENTS vii
VOLUME TWO
PART THREE
THE INTERPRETATION OF ISAIAH IN LATE ANTIQUITY
EUGENE ULRICH
An Index to the Contents of the Isaiah Manuscripts
from the Judean Desert .............................. 477
PETER W. FLINT
The Isaiah Scrolls from the Judean Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 481
EMANUELTOV
The Text of Isaiah at Qumran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 491
ARIE VAN DER KOOU
Isaiah in the Septuagint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... 513
STANLEYE. PORTERANDBROOKW. R. PEARSON
Isaiah through Greek Eyes: The Septuagint of Isaiah ......... 531
BRUCE CHILTON
Two in One: Renderings of the Book of Isaiah in
Targum Jonathan .................................. 547
ANTHONY GELSTON
Was the Peshitta of Isaiah of Christian Origin? ............. 563
LOUIS H. FELDMAN
Josephus' Portrait ofIsaiah .......................... 583
GEORGE J. BROOKE
Isaiah in the Pesharim and Other Qumran Texts . . . . . . . . . . .. 609
MICHAEL A. KNffiB
Isaianic Traditions in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha ...... 633
CRAIG A. EVANS
From Gospel to Gospel:
The Function of Isaiah in the New Testament .............. 651
GARY G. PORTON
Isaiah and the Kings: The Rabbis on the Prophet Isaiah ....... 693
Bibliography of Isaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 717
Index of Ancient Writings ........................... 773
Index of Modern Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 819