Isaiah Scroll
ca. 125 BCE
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From Isaiah to Zechariah: Biblical Prophets
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The classical prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible include many poetic or highly rhetorical prophecies addressed to the public at large.
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Isaiah and the Call for Monotheism
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The book of Isaiah has two sections, one the voice of Isaiah ben Amoz, an eighth-century BCE prophet in Jerusalem, and the other an anonymous Judean prophet of the Babylonian exile.
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