Dear Prof. Lemche -- Your comment is a head-scratcher! This blog post is drawn from a 300+-page monograph published this year with Cambridge University Press, which not only includes far more detail on this topic but also interacts extensively with the history of critical scholarship, going back to the 19th-century German scholarship that gave rise to one of the current popular theories. It takes on the topic from the standpoint of a multiple other critical methods in addition to archaeology. It's really quite striking how thin the continental European tradition of dating this passage is, but I have done just the opposite of disregarding it.
Also, if arguing that a passage from Isaiah 1-39 is actually from a century after the time of the prophet qualifies me for "the Bible is always right" school, then the fundamentalists must be loosening up -- kudos to them!
Dear Prof. Lemche -- Your comment is a head-scratcher! This blog post is drawn from a 300+-page monograph published this year with Cambridge University Press, which not only includes far more detail on this topic but also interacts extensively with the history of critical scholarship, going back to the 19th-century German scholarship that gave rise to one of the current popular theories. It takes on the topic from the standpoint of a multiple other critical methods in addition to archaeology. It's really quite striking how thin the continental European tradition of dating this passage is, but I have done just the opposite of disregarding it.
Also, if arguing that a passage from Isaiah 1-39 is actually from a century after the time of the prophet qualifies me for "the Bible is always right" school, then the fundamentalists must be loosening up -- kudos to them!
I commend the book to your attention!: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/origins-of-isaiah-2427/8A288D4CAA1…
Sincerely,
Chris Hays