TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blenkinsopp, Joseph
AU  - Blenkinsopp,Joseph
TI  - Opening the Sealed Book:  Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity
SN  - 9780802840219
U1  - BC36 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Michigan
PB  - William B.Eerdmans Publishing Co
N1  - 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

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