Say goodbye to the confused, vengeful, wild-eyed prophecies of the first half of the book. Isaiah has calmed down, offering hymns of praise rather than orgies of damnation. Chapter 40 is probably the ...

Several readers complain that I’ve gotten “punchy” during Isaiah. OK, I confess: I’m having a hard time with this book. The poetry is dense, the metaphors elusive, the history obscure, the themes ...

The Mustard Seed Ministry Bible Study Program at St. Francis Xavier Church in Mississauga, Ont., is drawing on the expertise of a renowned theologian to break open the Book of Isaiah over the coming ...

Most people think that since Jewish ancestors placed certain books in the Hebrew Bible, this means that they are significant in some way, and this way is clear to even the average reader. Nothing is ...

The recent discovery of potential archaeological evidence for the prophet Isaiah comes at a time when there is a still a lively debate over whether Isaiah wrote the whole book that bears his name.

For most of Church history, the standard view was that the entire book of Isaiah—all 66 chapters of it—was written by one man: the original prophet Isaiah, who lived in the 700s B.C. However, most ...

This is French artist James Tissot’s depiction of the prophet Isaiah during the period in which he wrote the book named for him Tissot lived from 1836-1902. (Courtesy Photo) Written in the Eighth ...

If you asked people whom their favorite biblical prophet is, there’s a strong chance they would answer Isaiah. Sure, Moses gets all the accolades, received the tablets, and is the most important; but ...