Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets : a comparative study of the earliest stages of the Isaiah tradition and the Neo-Assyrian prophecies

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These texts are to be distinguished from prophetic oracles since they do not have an oral background, and are to be qualified as literary compositions (Grayson 1975: 13; Ellis

the disasters announced (8:14-15) cannot be explained from a 701-perspective. Besides, the seventh- century reception of 701 is marked by a positive and glorifying tone:

23 Since the expression šipir ma‹‹ê probably refers to prophetic messages, it may be suggested that cases where a šipru is mentioned in the royal inscriptions, may refer to

Gallagher (1999: 142, note 71) points out that the qualification šep%u mitru ‘strong and tough’ only occurs in the inscriptions of Sennacherib and that it refers to peoples that

world in their decision-making and relates this to Mesopotamian divination. Her survey shows that prophecy and other forms of divination must be understood in the light of the

whose reign a deplorable situation came to an end after which a joyful period began. This relates to the divine mandate of the king, since it is the gods that initiate the

The present study confirms this view. The main conclusion of this study is, that the earliest stages of the Isaiah tradition, i.e. the prophetic material from the eighth