Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ian Charles Hutchesson <MC2499 AT mclink.it>]

>   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