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  • From: Ian Charles Hutchesson <MC2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>, <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • Subject: Re: Isaiah 13-14
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:45:05 +0100 (CET)


> I was wondering about Isaiah 13-14 and its application to Babylon,
> (BABEL). It is believed that Isaiah 1-39 is part of "proto-Isaiah",
> whom
> scholars place before the fall of the northern kingdom to Assyria
> in 722
> BCE. Babylon only comes into the picture over a hundred years
> later as a
> threat to Judah, the southern kingdom. Prior to 722 BCE, Assyria
> was the
> world power. Some scholars have speculated that originally Isaiah
> addressed
> the words in chapters 13-14 to Assyria and then later it was
> applied to
> Babylon when it became a threat.

Still away from Rome and books, but I understand the king of Isa14 to be
Antiochus IV. I have seen numerous similarities in the description of that
king in 2Macc and Daniel that are found in Isa14. And what has Mount Zaphon
to do with Nebuchadnezzar?


Ian






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