{"id":332,"date":"2007-12-02T21:38:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2021-01-02T22:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T22:10:51","slug":"the-ethical-teaching-of-the-prophet-isaiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/the-ethical-teaching-of-the-prophet-isaiah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethical Teaching of the Prophet Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a remarkable historical fact that in 800BC the prophet Isaiah had developed a keen sense of ethics directed at the lay, political and religious life of his contemporaries in the nation of Israel.\u00a0 He predates the Greek Presocratic philosophers by at least 200 years.\u00a0 He was a radical reformer, dramatist and fearless advocate of social, political and cultic purity.\u00a0 The current book of Isaiah reflects both his own writings and those of the school he founded.\u00a0 It is sometimes considered to have three parts &#8211; a historical section in the centre of the book concerning King Hezekiah, also found in the deuterocanonical writings, divides the two main sections.\u00a0 It must be said there are still those conservative scholars who argue for the book as entirely the personal work of Isaiah as the version found with the great archaeological find of the Dead Sea Scrolls contained the book in its entirety.\u00a0 However, whatever the human history of the book, it clearly divides thematically into three sections.<\/p>\n<p>This was a short undergraduate essay (1500 words only) which is notable for its extensive citations and strong structure.\u00a0 My previous essay for this lecturer was the lowest mark I ever received for a piece of work (35%), it is the only piece you will <strong>not<\/strong> find on this blog.\u00a0 I learnt that if you get given a reading list by a lecturer you had better read it, even if you argue against what you read!\u00a0 It was also ironic that he became my Master&#8217;s supervisor some 10 years later and we could laugh about it.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a PDF <a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/Documents\/Content\/The-Ethical-Teaching-Isaiah.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a remarkable historical fact that in 800BC the prophet Isaiah had developed a keen sense of ethics directed at the lay, political and religious life of his contemporaries in the nation of Israel.\u00a0 He predates the Greek Presocratic philosophers by at least 200 years.\u00a0 He was a radical reformer, dramatist and fearless advocate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,33],"tags":[167,166],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics","category-old-testament","category-theology","tag-dead-sea-scrolls","tag-isaiah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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