freedom, to adapt traditional elements within his description of God, even though the “foreign” origin can still be detected. The concept of the holiness of Yahweh is filled with new meaning when compared with the way the tribal league experienced God. This reinterpretation of the “transferred” concept about the holiness of God is apparently done by Isaiah with intentionality, since he also speaks elsewhere about Yahweh as the Holy One of Israel. Concerning the broader history of Israel’s belief