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Ausgabe:

März/2022

Spalte:

191–193

Kategorie:

Altes Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Hays, Christopher B.

Titel/Untertitel:

The Origins of Isaiah 24–27. Josiah’s Festival Scroll for the Fall of Assyria.

Verlag:

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019. XIV, 334 S. m. Abb. u. Tab. Geb. £ 75,00. ISBN 9781108471848.

Rezensent:

Marvin A. Sweeney

Christopher B. Hays proposes a new model for the composition of the core of Isaiah 24–27 in relation to the late-seventh century B. C. E. reforms of King Josiah of Judah (r. 640–609 B. C. E.). He contends that these chapters »celebrated the crumbling of the Neo-Assyrian empire as an act of divine deliverance« and that they »exhorted the former Northern Kingdom of Israel to reunite itself with Judah at a moment when that was a plausible choice for the first time in centuries« (1).
H. makes additional points in his Introduction, viz., Isaiah 24 begins in a manner typical of royal propaganda with a depiction of destruction and a failing natural order; Isaiah 25 has a festival character, which includes portrayals of YHWH’s victory over death, commonly associated with ...


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