Summary
One of the longest and most perplexing books in the Bible is the prophet Isaiah, the mere mention of whose name can set archeologists and Biblical scholars arguing. The canonical text of the Biblical book is divided into 66 chapters.
But who actually wrote the book and when? And more troubling still, how should his message be interpreted today? The prophet Isaiah is in fact, according to a great many scholars, not one person but at least three authors, probably writing is very different periods of ancient history.See the full content of this document
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Interpreting Isaiah Still Perplexes Today
First Isaiah, as the author is called, is probably the original prophet who lived in Judah in the 8th century BC. In chapter six of this book he describes some sort of religious experience in which he saw God in the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem in 740 BC, saying, "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and hi...
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