1.52 Isaiah and Micah, Prophets of the Assyrian Crisis

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Isaiah's ambiguity has made him a crowd-pleaser for over 2,500 years. He introduces a bunch of shiny-new theological ideas previously unknown in the Bible. Christians read into his book prophecies of the Christ. Micah is his counterpoint.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles. Episode 1.52, Prophets of the Assyrian Crisis.
0:49.3	Let's take a break from King Hezekiah and the troubles of the Kingdom of Judah.
0:55.0	It's time we tackled to the prophets Isaiah and Micah.
0:59.0	Isaiah is the first of the Judean prophets, working just after the Northerners Amos and Hosea.
1:07.0	His name Yeshayahu seems to mean God is my salvation.
1:12.2	His book says that he was city-bred, married and had sons.
1:17.7	Like Elijah, but unlike Amos and Josea,
1:22.0	Isaiah gives personal and up-close foreign policy advice to his king.
1:27.8	Isaiah spent a few decades haranguing the kings of Judah from the time of King Yotam
1:33.2	through Yotam's son and grandson, Ahars and Hezekiah.
1:39.2	Given the vagaries of dating, the best we can say is that he prophesied sometime between 750 and 700 BC.
1:49.9	Isaiah is one of the few prophets mentioned in the history books of Kings and Chronicles.
1:57.0	Apart from the book attributed to him, Isaiah gets a big call-out in a short work called
2:03.3	The Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah.
2:06.7	This mishmash is part Jewish, part Christian, assembled over a long six centuries, between 200 BC and 400 AD.
2:18.0	It describes Isaiah's grisly death in the hands of Hezekiah's son, King Manasse,
2:24.5	an event unrecorded in the Bible.
2:27.6	The Christian authored portions relate Isaiah's ascent to heaven.
2:32.2	In at least one rabbinic tradition, Isaiah was second only to Moses as a prophet.
2:39.6	He is the best loved of the prophets, cited twice as often as any other in that great
2:45.6	law digest the Mishnah.
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