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If you'd like to support the podcast, please visit sQP.com slash Give. You're listening to episode 332 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode we're talking

about the ascension of Isaiah. I'm Dom Bettinelli and joining me today is

Jimmy Aiken. Hey Jimmy. Add it on.

The early Christian church produced a large amount of literature, but most of the works the first Christians

wrote have been lost. One that survives is an apocalypse known as the ascension of Isaiah.

It focuses on the biblical prophet Isaiah who lived in the 8th century BC,

but it contains traditions about Jesus that are not recorded in the Gospels.

So what is the ascension of Isaiah? When was it written and what does it say?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Yakin's mysterious world.

Jimmy, today we're doing another in our series about so-called Lost Scriptures.

Let's start by reminding people what that means.

Well, for a start, it doesn't mean that these books are real scriptures,

just that we have evidence that some people in the past considered them to be scripture,

so they tell us more about what people believe

than what's historically accurate. They're also lost in the sense that because

they didn't make it into the Bible most people forgot

about them but scholars knew about them or at least rediscovered them at some

point. So how will we be proceeding with this mystery? This time we're looking at a first century Christian work called the Ascension of

Isaiah and it falls into two parts.

The first five chapters of the book deal with the martyrdom of the prophet Isaiah and the last six chapters deal

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