Part 5: Background, Composition, Questions of Shifts in the Text

Who was Isaiah?

  • How was the book of Isaiah formed?
  • How do critical scholars view shifts in setting and perspective in the text?
  • Are there other possible ways of thinking about these aspects of Isaiah’s work?

We explore these questions here in part 5.

Slides with notes:

Narrated YouTube presentation:

https://youtu.be/2pSHwwuCWRs

Recommended resources:

Bind Up the Testimony: Explorations in the Genesis of the Book of Isaiah

Three Writing Samples