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Article: Isaiah 1: the power of prophecy.(Midrash: Jewish Texts)(Essay)
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- January 1, 2006
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The particular power of the prophecy of Isaiah 1 is so grounded in the Hebrew Isaiah employs that much of the immediacy, the intimacy, and the searching intelligence of the prophet and his word to the people of Judah is necessarily lost in translation. It's left to the exegete who grapples with this amazing chapter--a page Out of the formation of Israel's religion--to try to explain how Isaiah 1 reflects the power of prophecy at its utmost. Prophecy, as no one at the time could have predicted, became one the most unstoppable and highly characteristic religious phenomena in Biblical Israel's history, and in this essay I'll attempt to convey just why this chapter was ...
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