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Posted on 02/22/2018 5:54:14 AM PST by C19fan
If you asked people whom their favorite biblical prophet is, there’s a strong chance they would answer Isaiah. Sure, Moses gets all the accolades, received the tablets, and is the most important; but Isaiah is the prophetic book most quoted by authors of the New Testament. For Christians, Isaiah predicts the coming of the Messiah, the death of Jesus and the Virgin Birth. So, it is particularly auspicious that in a stunning article published today in Biblical Archaeology Review archaeologists announced that they have stumbled upon the first physical evidence for the existence of the prophet Isaiah.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Prophets were known during their own times and judged on the accuracy of their visions. Anyone who professed to be one but whose prophesies turned out to be inaccurate could be subject to death. In the case of Isaiah he was counselor to the royal court of Judea and would have been a well known figure during his own lifetime.
It is the greatest find of the Dead Sea scrolls, and perhaps the most important archaeological find in history, a complete copy of Isaiah dating back before Jesus. It is also the most quoted scripture among the New Testament books. Why doubt that he existed, unless you’re just wanting to be difficult.
Was “Isaiah the prophet” referred to as “Isaiah the prophet” in Isaiah’s day?
Yes. Hezekiah leaned on him for advice and understanding of future events.
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Do grasshoppers prove the existence of grass?
Archeologists can’t find their ass in the dark with both hands.
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>> “Was ‘Isaiah the prophet’ referred to as ‘Isaiah the prophet’ in Isaiah’s day?” <<
Yes! - That is why they sawed him in half.
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Good comparison!
When I was what I thought I was an unbeliever, I always found these stories amazing. In fact, I always believed the historic accuracy of the Bible. However, I didn’t believe in the supernatural part of it; the miracles. But it became obvious to me, that they could have only worked and hand and hand. At the same time, fulfilled prophecy is very hard to dismissed. Perhaps I was always spiritually aware, but wanted to live my own ways before I came to Christ.
Well, they used to call him “Isaiah the Pottery Delivery Boy” when he was a kid, but that was just a part-time summer gig.
I wonder if he was ever known as “Isaiah the Comic”?
Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?”
“From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came to me from Babylon.” --Isaiah 39:3 (NIV)
I don't know if the Hebrew phrase for "Isaiah the prophet" was the same as the the Hebrew on the seal, but at least the translation to English in this article and from the NIV bible match.
Correction, I accidentally implied the narrator was Isaiah, but I am under the impression the scrolls of Isaiah were being written down for him by one or more scribes.
Thanks C19fan.
Thanks C19fan. One of *those* topics.
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"Because the bulla has been slightly damaged at end of the word nvy, it is not known if it originally ended with the Hebrew letter aleph," explains Mazar, "which would have resulted in the Hebrew word for 'prophet' and would have definitively identified the seal as the signature of the prophet Isaiah. The absence of this final letter, however, requires that we leave open the possibility that it could just be the name Navi. The name of Isaiah, however, is clear." [from the first link in the above message]
Nevertheless, Reut Livyatan Ben-Arie, who studied the bullae from the Ophel with me, suggests that there is enough space for two more letters at the end of the second register: a "w" (vav), the last letter in the name Yesha'yahu, and an "h," the definite article "the" for the word navy' ("prophet"), rendering it hanavy' ("the prophet"). One can wonder why the seal's designer would choose to insert the definite article at the end of the second register instead of at the beginning of the word navy' on third register, where there seems to have been enough space. But, as strange as it may seem to us, this division of words is not unusual in ancient Hebrew writing. In fact, a good example of this can be seen in King Hezekiah's bulla, where the name of his father, Ahaz, spreads over two registers, with the last letter pushed into the lower one. Thus, the spreading of a word over two registers on seals seems to have been accepted, if not common. [from the second link above]
It's always helpful and informative to find extra-biblical support for the biblical historical narrative. I'm sure that if proper investigation of the Temple Mount was allowed we'd see remains of the First Temple.
I was thinking the same thing. He was pretty much a “rock star” back in the day.
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