The Early Reception of the Book of Isaiah

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This volume brings together a lively set of papers from the first session of the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in 2016. Together with a few later contributions, these essays explore a number of thematic and textual issues as they trace the reception history of the Book of Isaiah in Deuterocanonical and cognate literature. Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction An Intertextual Dialogue between the Book of Isaiah and the Book of 1 Maccabees: On Judean Leadership The Concept of the City in the Book of Isaiah and in the Deuterocanonical Literature Divine and Divinely Sanctioned Violence in the Book of Isaiah and the Deuterocanonical Literature The Messiah and the ‘End of Days’ in the Book of Isaiah and in the Deuterocanonical Literature The Temple in the So-Called Jewish Romances in the Deuterocanonical Literature: Judith, Tobit, and Esther Old Greek Isaiah 1:13: Early Evidence for the “Great Day” as a Name for Yom Kippur? The Book of Isaiah, the Wisdom of Solomon and the Fathers: An Exploration of the Textual History and Concepts List of Contributors Indices