Reading the Book of Isaiah: Destruction and Lament in the Holy CitiesRandall Heskett uses both historical criticism and a form-critical approach to analyze and assess Lamentation and Restoration of Destroyed Cities as oral traditions of ancient Israelite prophetic genres. |
Contents
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Their Form and Function | 7 |
Chapter 3 The City Destruction and Native Israelite Genres | 31 |
Chapter 4 Cities and Nations and City of God | 49 |
Chapter 5 The Divine Council | 65 |
Chapter 6 Babylon the Great | 78 |
Messiah Restorer and Temple Builder | 109 |
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Akkadian appears Assyrian Babylon Babylonian become Bible biblical Book Book of Isaiah Book of Lamentations called chapter city laments city-lament features city-lament genre city-lament motifs Cyrus Cyrus’s Daughter of Babylon daughter of Zion demise depicts describe destroyed city divine abandonment divine council Dobbs-Allsopp earth Enlil Eridu Erra exile faithful city former things fulfillment function God’s gods Gwaltney Hebrew Hence holy hôy idols imagery invective threat Isaiah 13 Isaiah 47 Išbi-Erra Israel Israelite Israelite religion Jacob Jacob-Israel judgment king kirugu Kramer literary Literature LORD LSUr Marduk Melugin Mesopotamian Laments Messiah Michalowski Moab nations Ningal Nippur Old Testament oracle postexilic prebiblical prophecies redactional restoration role salvation scholars Scriptural Scroll scroll of Isaiah Second Isaiah material Seitz Servant City Servant Song Sheppard Sumer Sweeney temple texts Third Isaiah Thorkild Jacobsen tion Torah trial speeches Ugaritic Ur III Uruk verse Virgin Daughter weeping goddess Westermann Wilshire YHWH YHWH’s Zion-Jerusalem Zion’s