Five Prophetic Practitioners

Abstract

Biblical scholars commonly attribute the Book of Isaiah to at least two writers: chapters 1-39 to the man identified at Isaiah 1:1 as the son of Amoz, who lived in the Southern Kingdom of Judah under Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, that is, during the latter half of the eighth century BCE; and chapters 40-66 to an unidentified Jewish exile in Babylonia about 150 years later, whom they call Second Isaiah. (Some see a post-Exilic Third Isaiah in some of the latter passages [e.g., Is. 45:1 ff.].)