such a person (though this latter assumption has also become subject to questioning). It may be safer to see Isaiah 56–66 as a compilation of material issuing from a number of prophets and preachers, which in a variety of ways takes forward agenda and perspectives expressed in Isaiah 40–55 and elsewhere, and which accumulated gradually, at least over some decades at the beginning of the Persian period. I work with this view because I need some assumption about the question, not because I think we