{"id":65501,"date":"2019-11-10T13:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=65501"},"modified":"2019-11-10T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T11:31:50","slug":"portents-burdens-oracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/portents-burdens-oracles\/","title":{"rendered":"Portents, Burdens, Oracles"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"65501","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"347","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Isaiah, pt 2: Prophecies about other countries","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13:1 \u201cThe portent about Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw in a vision.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word translated as \u201cportent,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">masa\u2019, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has the literal sense of \u201cburden,\u201d which is to say, a burden of prophetic pronouncement. Some render this as \u201coracle,\u201d\u00a0 though oracles tend to be murkier and also more strictly predictive. Babylon becomes an imperial power in the region that threatens, then destroys, the kingdom of Judah a century after Isaiah. Prophetic and other biblical books were conceived as open-ended affairs into which later materials could be introduced. Presumably, the editor felt that the portent about the doom of Babylon was in keeping with the outlook of Isaiah\u2019s prophecies concerning Assyria. The psalm placed as chapter 12 editorially marks the end of the first large unit of the book. The present chapter begins a series of prophecies about sundry foreign nations. Most of this material is later, although it is difficult to sort out the chronology of the various units.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hebrew Bible, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol. 2: Prophets, W. 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