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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...

the great figures of Israel’s history are eulogized, beginning with Enoch and concluding with ben Sira’s contemporary, the high priest Simon II (219–196 B.C.E.). Jesus ben Sira’s focus throughout his work is on the priesthood, to the extent that Aaron is described at much greater length than Moses. His list includes several prophetic figures beginning with Samuel (46:13–20) and concluding with Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve (“the bones of the twelve prophets,” 49:10). This would suggest
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