Chapter 18-24 Flashcards
Second Isaiah
Deutero-Isaiah
Ch 40-55
6th century bce
First Isaiah
Ch 1-39
Isaiah in Jerusalem
Late 8th & early seventh
Jerusalem under siege but not destroyed
Third isaiah
Ch 56-66
During 5th century BCE
Syro-ephraimite war
Damascus/Syria and northern kingdom of Israel formed a coalition to block assyria’s advance and Judah refused to join
Immanuel
God is with us
Isaiah 7.14 and 8.3
A son of king Ahaz, probably hezekiah or of Isaiah (most likely)
A pregnant woman is to give birth to a son with a symbolic name
Hezekiah’s tunnel
Siloam tunnel
1700’ long
Divert water from the gihon spring in the Liston valley to the Siloam pool
Preparation for the Syrian attack of 701bce
Found in 1880
Megiddo
Josiah’s attempt to block the Egyptian advance in 609
A major pass from the coastal road to the interior.
The site of the final battle between the forces of good and evil (rev. 16:16)
Confessions of Jeremiah
In first major section of Jeremiah
Show deep unhappiness with the message he was delivering, divine retribution, enduring commitment to the divine call
Fictional autobiography
Weary of withholding the fire within
Prophetic gestures
Prophets communicated their message by performing symbolic actions
Remaining unmarked
Purchase of a jug- as one breaks a potters vessel so that is can never be mended
Wearing an animals yoke on his neck- warning towards kings of Moab, espn, tyre and Sidon forming a coalition agains Nebuchadnezzar. All become subjects of Babylonian king
Purchase of land in anathoth- symbolic guarantee that after that struggle
Synagogues
The diaspora established houses of prayer and community centers.
Face direction of Jerusalem
Acrostic
A poem in which the first letters of successive lines from a word or pattern.
Alphabetic acrostics in bible
Aid to reciter’s memory
Lamentations has 4 in first 4 chapters.
Diaspora
people who were exiles from Babylonian attack
Second isaiah
Principal enemy is babylon
Jerusalem is destroyed and will be restored.
Servant songs
In 1892, Bernard duhm found 4 passages in Isaiah
The servant is Israel personified as a prophet
Isa 42.1-4
Isa 49.1-6
Isa 50.4-11
Isa 52.13-53.12
Second temple
The rebuilt temple dedicated in 515
Period lasted late 6th century to 70ce when captured and destroyed by Romans
Third isaiah
56-66 Trito-Isaiah Temple is restored and functioning Early postexhilic Difficult to date
Apocalyptic
To uncover, to reveal
Starting at postexilic period to common era
Revelation to designated human by heavenly messenger
Explication of past and present in coded language
End-time in near future
Dualism
Pessimism about present, optimistic about future
Incorporations of mythic traditions
Surreal imagery rather than realistic
Isaiah apocalypse
Describes end time
Isa 24-27
Aramaic
Ezra, Daniel, Jeremiah, genesis 31.47
Semitic language originally spoken in aram. General language of the area.
Writings
Wide amt of genres
Chronicles psalms proverbs
The chronicler
Author of chronicles
Parallelism
Repetition, synonyms or opposites
Found in ugaritic and Mesopotamian poetry
Wisdom literature
Concerned with the realities of human experience
Analogous to philosophy
Proverb
Short saying that pithily expresses insight into experience
Woman wisdom
Proverbs 1-9
Wisdom as a female figure
Divine companion
Source of order in society and success in life
Theodicy
Divine justice
Experience suggests otherwise in Job and Ecclesiastes
Son of man
Human being, in contrast to Divine being Ezekiel Daniel Mortals, inferior In Daniel- looks human but clearly more than human. 1. Supreme power on earth Or 2. Faithful people of Israel personified 3. Messianic figure
Angel
Messenger
Refers to both human and divine messengers
Part of divine council
