Opening the Sealed Book Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Isaiah: The Book i
What Is a Book? i
From Scraps to Scrolls 4
The Literate and Illiterate Are Invited to Read a Sealed Book 8
Is the Sealed Book the Book of Isaiah? 11
The Isaianic-Danielic Interpretative Trajectory 14
The Sealed Book in Daniel 18
Sealed and Secret Books after Daniel 23
2. Isaiah: Author, Prophet, Man of God 28
Isaiah as Author 28
Contrasting Profiles of Isaiah in the Book 32
The Prophetic Role Redefined 38
Isaiah in Chronicles and Jesus ben Sira 43
Isaiah in The Lives of the Prophets and Josephus 46
The Martyrdom of Isaiah 49
The Lure of Martyrdom: The Passion of Isaiah and the Passion of Jesus 52
3. Isaiah at the Beginnings of Jewish Sectarianism 56
Questions about Definition 56
Sectarian Phenomena in the Early Persian Period 64
The Gap between the Fifth and the Second Centuries B.C.E. 72
Bridging the Gap 77
The Final and Decisive Phase in the Formation of Sects 84
4. Reading Isaiah at Qumran 89
The Source Material: Scrolls and Scraps 89
The Qumran Pesher Commentaries 98
Text Interpretation and Dream Interpretation 103
The Isaiah Pesharim 106
5. Reading Isaiah in Early Christianity, with
Special Reference to Matthew`s Gospel 129
The Gospel according to Isaiah 129
The Jesus Sect and the Sect of John the Baptist 138
The Matthean Commentaries 147
Isaiah according to Matthew`s Gospel 154
6. Isaianic Titles in Qumran and Early Christianity 169
Titles, Rubrics, and Self-descriptions in General 169
The Many 174
The Way 178
The Righteous 185
The Elect 193
The Servants of the Lord 197
The Saints 203
The Poor 209
The Penitents 212
The Mourners 216
The Devout 219
7. Exile in the Interpretation of Isaiah 222
The Prophetic Idea of the "Remnant of Israel" 222
Exile and Return in Sectarian Writings from the Greco-Roman Period 230
Exile and Return in the Isaianic Interpretative Tradition 241
8. The Many Faces of the Servant of the Lord 251
The Beginnings in the Book of Isaiah 251
The Servant as Protomartyr and Eschatological Figure 259
The Servant of the Lord at Qumran 268
The Anonymous Teacher and Jesus of Nazareth as Servant Figures 282