Opening the Sealed Book Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity
- Michigan William B.Eerdmans Publishing Co 2006
- 315p
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