This interpretation of the opening of the Book of Isaiah proposes a typology of prophetic superscriptions, challenges the existence of the genre of a prophetic lawsuit, and interprets Israel's offenses against the socially vulnerable as a resistance to the just rule of JHWH with calamitous consequences. Seen in the light of Isa.1, Isaiah's speech (Isa.6) is directed against a people whose tyrannical behavior recalls that of the Egyptian Pharaoh.

Autorentext

Joachim Eck, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

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Ulrich Berges in: Theologische LIteraturzeitung 142 (2017) 12, 1333-1335

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Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer in: Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2017 (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 41.5), S. 2

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