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Opening the Sealed Book: Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of all the texts in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, perhaps no book has a more colorful history of interpretation than Isaiah. A comprehensive history of this interpretation between the prophet Malachi and the first days of Christianity, Joseph Blenkinsopp’s Opening the Sealed Book traces three different prophetic traditions in Isaiah—the “man of God,” the critic of social structures, and...

For the author of Chronicles, therefore, Hezekiah is center-stage throughout, and Isaiah, mentioned only once in passing, is a marginal figure. He is compensated, however, by being assigned the role of the historian of the reign, in keeping with the author’s practice of citing prophetic sources at the conclusion of the reigns of several Judean kings.35 There is no allusion anywhere to Isaiah’s indictments of his contemporaries. A final observation: It is not clear what the author had in mind in referring
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