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THIS MIGHT SURPRISE YOU

A reader says: "Isaiah is named in the second half of the book just as he is in the first." Agree or disagree?

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The answer

Disagree. The prophet is named in the first half: in three headings (Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 2:1, Isaiah 13:1) and three stories (Isaiah 7:3, Isaiah 20:2 and chapters 36 to 39). After chapter 39 his name never appears again. Chapters 40 to 66 come from a voice with no name.

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Why it’s interesting

The first half calls the Lord "the Holy One of Israel," and so does the second. The phrase occurs over thirty times in Isaiah and rarely elsewhere. Scholars point to links like that as a reason the parts read as one book.

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