Is The Critical Consensus Wrong? Was Isaiah 40-66 Written Instead In The Pre-Exilic Period? Image: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
My analysis suggests that the cumulative linguistic evidence aligns most coherently with a pre-exilic dating of Isaiah 40-66. In fact, a post-exilic dating would require such extensive redating of other books that the traditional Classical vs. Late Biblical Hebrew distinction becomes unstable…Read More
