The Opponents of Third Isaiah: Reconstructing the Cultic History of the Restoration (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Schramm, Brooks

ISBN 10: 0567102149 / ISBN 13: 9780567102140

Published by Sheffield Academic Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Opponents of Third Isaiah: Reconstructing the Cultic History of the Restoration (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567102149
• ISBN 13: 9780567102140
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

In several places in Isaiah 56-66 a group of Israelites is accused of engaging in various forms of aberrant religious practice: the sacrifice of children, the eating of swine, participation in fertility rites, the practice of necromancy, offering sacrifice to deities known as Gad and Meni, and a host of other things. Who are these people? Certainly not the Zadokite priesthood, as Paul Hanson claimed in his The Dawn of Apocalyptic. More likely argues Schramm, they are simply traditional syncretistic Yahwists.

About the Author

Brooks Schramm is Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.