Darren M. Slade
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The Unity and Authorship of the Book of Isaiah
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Abstract
"This paper will first examine the book’s stylistic disunity, historical context, and Cyrus notations. The second section will present arguments for unity, which include tradition, manuscript evidence, and support from the New Testament. In the end, arguments against a unified Isaianic authorship contain anti-predictive suppositions, which undermine biblical claims of a single writer. Likewise, textual evidence supports the historical tradition that Isaiah was written in the eighth century by one author" (taken from the introduction).
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