Forms of Old Testament Literature: Isaiah 1-39 with an Introduction to Prophetic Literature (The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, Volume 16)
Marvin A. Sweeney
Language: English
Pages: 570
ISBN: 2:00303737
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Fundamentally exegetical, the FOTL volumes examine the structure, genre, setting, and intention of the biblical literature in question. They also study the history behind the form-critical discussion of the material, attempt to bring consistency to the terminology for the genres and formulas of the biblical literature, and expose the exegetical procedure.
Cologne and Bonn: P. Hanstein, 1977) 209-25; E. J. Kissane, The Book of Isaiah, vol. 1 (Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1941; 2nd ed. 1960); J. Klausner, The Messianic Idea in Israel (tr. W. F. Stinespring; London: George Allen and Unwin, 1956); K. Koch, "Damnation and Salvation — Prophetic Metahistory and the Rise of Eschatology in the Book of Isaiah," ExAud 6 (1990) 5-13; idem, "Ezra and the Origins of Judaism," JSS 19 (1974) 173-97; idem, "Zur Geschichte der Erwählungsvorstellung in Israel," ZAW
13 (1971) 266-81; B. D. Napier, "Isaiah and the Isaian," Volume du Congrès, Genève 1965 (VTSup 15; Leiden: Brill, 1966) 240-51; FI. Niehl׳, "Bedeutung und Funktion kanaanäischer Traditions-elements in der Sozialkritik Jesajas," BZ 28 (1984) 69-81; K. Nielsen, "Das Bild des Gerichts (Rib Pattern) in Jes. I-XII," VT 29 (1979) 309-24; idem. There Is Hope for a Tree: The Tree as Metaphor in Isaiah (tr. C. and F. Crowley; JSOTSup 65; Sheffield: JSOT Press. 1989); J. N. Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah,
that the concept of repentance expressed by the verb šûb in v. 27 is also an important feature of Deuteronomistic literature. Furthermore, vv. 19-20 take up the vocabulary and themes from the preceding material, including the YIIWII speech fonnula of v. 20b (cf. v. 2a) and the wordplay on the verbal root 'kl, "to eat," in vv. 19 and 20a (cf. v. 7b). As noted ak)ve, they are instrumental in associating vv. 10-17 with vv. 4-9. These considerations indicate that vv. 27-28 and vv. 19-20 play a
failing to meet the required standards of justice and righteousness. Nevertheless, the allegory does not specify these failings or the means and nature of the punishment that YHWH intends to impose, and thus leaves the audience with only a general impression of the prophet's message. Vv. 8-24 provide this specific information. These verses charge the leadership of the country with excessive land appropriation (vv. 8-10) and perversion of justice (vv. 20-23), which are linked to the leadership's
the introductory messenger fonnula in v. 7a, the message from YHWH appears in the fonn of a reassurance oracle proper in vv. 7b-9a and an admonition to the "house of David" to rely on YHWH in v. 9b. The report of the dialogue between YHWH/Isaiah and Ahaz appears in w . 10-25. YHWH is identified as the speaker in v. 10, but the combination of lst-person perspective with 3rd-person references to YHWH throughout the so-called YHWH speeches in this passage (vv. 13, 14, 20; cf. vv. 11, 12, 17,18)