The significance of the rhetorical ambiguity in Isaiah 54:16

Nissim Amzallag; Shamir Yona

doi:10.17159/2312-3621/2018/v31n2a4

The significance of the rhetorical ambiguity in Isaiah 54:16

Nissim Amzallag, Shamir Yona

Department of Bible Studies, Archeology and the Ancient Near East

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The ambiguity in Isa 54:16a concerning the identity of the subject (YHWH or the smith) of the two verbs relating a metallurgical action (to blow and to cast) is identified here as a rhetorical device intending to conceal the essential relation of YHWH with metallurgy. Integrated in the whole Isa 54 chapter, this device becomes a plea for the definitive replacement of Edom with Israel as YHWH'S people, exactly as in Isa 34-35 and Isa 61-63.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	323-338
Number of pages	16
Journal	Old Testament Essays
Volume	31
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2018/v31n2a4
State	Published - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

Anti-Edomite ideology
Book of Isaiah
Copper metallurgy
Kbd-YHWH
Primeval Yahwism

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Archaeology
Language and Linguistics
History
Religious studies
Archaeology
Linguistics and Language

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