‘master-disciple’ relationship between two prophets, as with Elijah and Elisha, each is remembered by name. But in the case of ‘Second Isaiah’, we are required to believe that a ‘disciple’ who receives a separate commissioning almost a century and a half after the death of his master, and whose own ministry rivals or even surpasses that of his mentor, has had his identity completely suppressed! The canonical book of Isaiah presents a very different account of what actually took place. The one called
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