"Breaking with common views on Jewish proto-apocalyptic literature, in a postmodern manner, this work intertextually approaches one particular proto-apocalyptic text, Isaiah 24-27, the so-called 'Isaiah Apocalypse'. This reading finds that the Isaiah Apocalypse redeploys and con…
In this volume Cunha argues that the differences found between the Septuagint text of Isaiah and the Hebrew of the Masoretic Text must be weighed against the literary context in which they are found. The author demonstrates that LXX Isa 24:1–26:6 can be seen as a coherent ideolo…
The formation and interpretation of Isaiah 24-27, the "Isaiah Apocalypse," are important for understanding Isaiah's compositional history, emerging religious thought in the Persian Period, and scribal techniques for late biblical materials. The volume explores these and other is…
The formation and interpretation of Isaiah 24-27, the "Isaiah Apocalypse," are important for understanding Isaiah's compositional history, emerging religious thought in the Persian Period, and scribal techniques for late biblical materials. The volume explores these and other is…
The author here presents an attempt to understand four especially puzzling chapters of late Old Testament prophets (Isaiah 24?27). He interprets Isaiah 24?27 as a component of the final redaction of the book of Isaiah. The so-called "Isaiah apocalypse" is understood as a fruit o…