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Throughout history, young humans have endured careful moral instruction on the difference between right and wrong. Yet humanity owns a spectacular history o ...
The phrases "I am" and "the Son of Man" (a being) may refer to the same person and the revelation of God "I am" to Moses at the "burning bush."
The phrases "I am" and "the Son of Man" (a being) may refer to the same person and the revelation of God "I am" to Moses at the "burning bush."
summary Isaiah 1–39 uses the unique term אלילים—usually translated as “idols”— more than anywhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Using this linguistic phenomenon as a point of departure, Matthew J. Lynch reexamines the rhetorical strategies of First Isaiah, revealing a stronger monotheizing rhetoric than previously recognized. Standard accounts of Israelite religion frequently insist that monotheism reached its apex during the exile, and especially in Deutero-Isaiah. By contrast, Lynch’s study brings to light an equally potent mode of monotheizing in First Isaiah. Lynch i...