Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

Interesting research, and I don't dispute your main points. But I'm 
not sure who you are trying to fool today in calling Isaiah a "true 
prophet" while at the same time presenting him as a false prophet, 
i.e. one who either made predictions which did not come true (the 
defining characteristic of a false prophet according to Deuteronomy 
18:21-22) or presented apparent predictions which were actually made 
after the event. Anyway, we must be very careful before saying that a 
prophet's predictions did not come true, as very often we find 
ourselves relying on silence, i.e. assuming that our partial knowledge 
(mainly derived from tendentious sources) of what actually happened at 
a remote time is full knowledge of that time. It certainly is not, 
there is room for a lot more things to have happened than we have 
surviving records of.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: The Assyrian King of Babylon identified (Isa.14:1-27)
Author:  <mattfeld AT mail.pjsnet.com> at Internet
Date:    01/04/2000 21:07

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.. So, I understand Isaiah to be a true prophet of the 8th century BCE and 
that his "after the fact oracle" is alluding to the death of Sargon II in 
705 BCE. ... (thus fulfilling the prophet's prophecy that all his wealth 
would be taken, but not as envisoned by the prophet, that is to say, by the 
Chaldeans). Isaiah's failed prophecies are proof he is of the 8th century 
BCE (that is Isaiah 1-39).

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