Isaiah with Training Wheels – Notes
Isaiah ch. 52:13-15
https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/who-is-the-servant-spoken-of-by-christ
Times and Seasons 5:635 identifies the servant as Joseph Smith
Unity of Authorship of Isaiah
Hebrew authors balance the number of blessing and cursings, so that there are equal numbers of both. Half the book of Isaiah (1-39) is primarily curses and condemnations while (40-66) is blessings and comfort. This is not proof of different authorship, but a single author giving different sections different stylistic choices.
Likewise, the practice of temporal/spiritual chiasmi and temporal/spiritual/synthesis chiasmi is something that both happens throughout the text, and divides the text itself into three sections, sometimes attributed to different authors, misses the point of the structural arrangement.
See Donald W. Parry, “The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)—Catalogue of Textual Variants,” in “To Seek the Law of the Lord”: Essays in Honor of John W. Welch, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson and Daniel C. Peterson (Orem, UT: The Interpreter Foundation, 2017), 247–65. Further information at https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/to-seek-the-law-of-the-lord-essays-in-honor-of-john-w-welch-2/.]
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