Michael Reads the Bible

So, as I was saying, the Book of Isaiah is an unsettling document to the lay reader. By “to the lay reader” I of course mean “to me.” Sti...

Sometimes the chapter divisions in the Bible really throw you for a loop.  I closed last time at the end of Isaiah 52 by mentioning three v...

Isaiah 47: More prophesy from Isaiah, of course, this time an extended metaphor predicting the fall of Babylon. The mighty empire to the...

Right, so where were we? The book of Isaiah continues with the teachings of this great prophet of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition. U...

Chapter 35: This Chapter seems to carry on from Isaiah 34, which was largely about the destruction of Moab in a “day of vengeance” (8). But...

I know very little about the long, long process in which decisions were made about what material is in the Bible and what material is not i...

Isaiah 17 Predictions -- an "oracle," actually, although that word seems oddly Greek-mythological to be popping up here -- of the ...

Isaiah 11-12 offer more of what is I guess the roots of the messianic tradition in Judaism and Christianity. It begins by saying, famously ...

Isaiah's fiery sermonizing in these three chapters is very much akin to what we have seen so far in his Book: dire predictions of the do...

Isaiah 5: Wine and Woe Isaiah 5 begins with the “Song of the Vineyard,” which starts out nicely as a poem about how My loved one had a viney...

Isaiah in the Last Days So! Isaiah 2 continues as a further transcript of the speeches of, who else? Isaiah! And in Verses 1 through 5, h...

So, I got transferred to a new job a few months ago, and between that and other items relating to home improvement and a million other thing...