{"id":64345,"date":"2019-10-15T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=64345"},"modified":"2023-05-08T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:22:28","slug":"introducing-isaiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/introducing-isaiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[493,361,898,940],"acf":{"old_id":"64345","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"328","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A new sort of prophet\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the previous chapter, we learned that Hezekiah initially met the Assyrian threat with diplomacy. He dispatched a delegation of his chamberlain, scribe, and recorder to meet with an Assyrian officer named Rabshakeh. Of greater curiosity than their actual exchange, however, is the request made by the Judeans: \u201cPlease, speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; do not speak to us in Judean in the hearing of the people on the wall\u201d (26). That Judean noblemen spoke Aramaic\u2014 then, the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lingua franca<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Middle East\u2014is not nearly as surprising as the implication that an Assyrian spoke Hebrew. The Sages thought that unusual enough that they declared him to be an apostate Jew (Sanhedrin 60a), whereas Radak observed that \u201clots of people speak foreign languages\u201d (18:17).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter picks up at the point that the delegates report their conversation with Rabshakeh to King Hezekiah, who responded by sending them\u2014decked out in sackcloth\u2014to the Prophet Isaiah. The balance of the chapter presents the text of Hezekiah\u2019s plea for divine intercession against the Assyrian threat and The Lord\u2019s reply\u2014as delivered by Isaiah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not only our introduction to Isaiah per se, but to classical prophecy itself. In our comments to the Book of Samuel, we had occasion to introduce the term \u201capostolic\u201d prophecy to describe the activities of such early prophets as Samuel, Nathan, and Gad, whose prophetic function consisted of missions\u2014usually political in nature\u2014that they undertook at God\u2019s behest. These matter-of-fact activities were conducted and reported in ordinary prosaic terms, as distinct from the activities of such later prophets as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel whose prophecies were religious\u2014even theological\u2014in nature and were delivered in lyrical, even poetic, terms that we often find obscure, even impenetrable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Isaiah of our chapter appears as both a prophet and as an actor in an ongoing historical event. 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