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From: Jim Deardorff 
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On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Andrew Gross wrote:
> .....

   (I wrote:)  
> > Who is it that is speaking in Is 7:13-17 on?  The 
> > RSV English makes it seem as if it is Ahaz still speaking at this point, 
> > because 7:13 starts out "And he said," and if it had been Isaiah himself 
> > speaking, it should have read, "And I said..."  Yet I feel it must have 
> > been Isaiah, the prophet, speaking there!  

> D. Winton Thomas actually suggested the emendation to "And I said...".  
> The NJPS translation keeps the 3rd person singular subject -- with Isaiah 
> as the speaker -- and assumes that Isaiah's name was simply elided.  I 
> think this is a reasonable way to understand this passage.

To me this sort of editorial confusion suggests a substantial amount of 
editorial work went on here before this area of Isaiah got patched together.
Thus I'm not at all sure the Immanuel prophecy even belonged originally in 
with the Ahaz story.

Thanks for the recommendation on the Kutscher monograph.

Jim Deardorff
Oregon State University

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