Isaiah 40:1-2
Table of Contents
A. Introduction
B. Critical Issues to the Book Of Isaiah
a. Deutero Isaiah Vs United Isaiah
b. History Vs. Prophecy
C. Introduction to the Text
a. Literary Context
b. Prophetic Genre
D. Exegetical Analysis
a. Words of Interest
b. Aspect of Interest
c. Theological Significance
E. Conclusion
A. Introduction
" Isaiah was the greatest of the Hebrew prophets. His general prophecies are without
equal as far as beauty of style, versatility of treatment, brilliance of imagery, and splendor of
diction are concerned." A sample of the truth of this statement can be found in the
passage Isaiah 40:1-2. Within the passage the realization of special relationship with God and
His People can be found. And "with great force and elegance; declaring God’s command
to his messengers the prophets to comfort his people in their captivity, and to impart to
them the glad tidings that the time of favour and deliverance was at hand", . With these
great statements the study going to relay on the understanding of the critical issues debate
about the book of Isaiah and give overview of the context of the passage with exegetical
analysis .
Critical Issues
Two critical debates significant in the study of the book of Isaiah, the debate between
deutero Isaiah and unified Isaiah. And the debate History Vs. Prophecy those debates put the
scholars in dispute about the authorship of the book, those who believe that “the Prophet in
Chaps. 40–55. Unlike other prophetic books, Isaiah chaps. 40–55 have no introductory
heading like “The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz”,” this debate started since” the 18th
century certain Bible critics have questioned the unity of the Book of Isaiah. Late in the 19th
century a theory emerged that ascribed chapters 40–66 to an unknown prophet a deutero
(“second”) Isaiah presumably living among the exiles in Babylon.
LaHaye, Tim, and Ed Hindson. The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy. Eugene, OR.: Harvest House Publishers, 2004.
It is the reader and his or her interpretive community who attempts to impose a unified reading on a given text. Such readers may, and probably will, claim that the unity they find is in the text, but this claim is only a mask for the creative process actually going on. Even the most carefully designed text can not be unified; only the reader's attempted taming of it. Therefore, an attempt to use seams and shifts in the biblical text to discover its textual precursors is based on a fundamentally faulty assumption that one might recover a stage of the text that lacked such fractures (Carr 23-4).
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