The superscription in Isaiah 1:1 is not the only one in the book, which may be suggestive of the book’s own history. It also announces the book’s focus on Jerusalem the Holy City...
Describes why careful readers of Isaiah have for a thousand years thought of the book in (at least) three different imperial contexts...
This podcast introduces the book (not the prophet) Isaiah. We’ll begin to think about how this huge (66 chapters) sprawling book is organised. This will lead into a more detailed look at many of the parts over the coming months. This introduction to the book assumes some understanding of how prophets and prophetic books work. [&hellip...
At last, I’m on the home straight, the first of the prophets 🙂 The prophetic books are packed with humour. But right at the start we’ll need to get one thing clear. Humour is not just the comic, entertainment that promotes a giggle or a smile. There is humour also in tragedy, at times when [&hellip...
I have not focused these 5 Minutes on how Is 53 speaks so clearly about Jesus, it is the Old Testament passage that is most clearly, directly and simply fulfilled in Christ. But that status should not make it paradigmatic for undedrstanding how Jesus fulfills Scripture. For more on that (and there is nothing on [&hellip...
It is certainly one of my favourite Bible passages, indeed it is many people’s favourite Bible chapter. Isaiah 40 is just full of superb phrases and pictures. Whenever it was composed, this chapter really comes to life and sparkles when it is heard as the Judean exiles in Babylon heard, it just before Cyrus the [&hellip...
