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Isa 8:16 is considered a key reference regarding the formation of the book of Isaiah and the role of prophetic disciples in this process. This article argues, however, that originally this verse had a more limited significance. The instruction to which v. 16 refers is to be identified with vv. 12-15 rather than an early ‘book’ of Isaiah. The expression ‘the instructed ones’ (of YHWH rather than the prophet) is applied to the prophet’s audience. This term reflects Isaiah’s characteristic view of prophesying as an act of instruction and prophecy as a form of teaching, and it does not presuppose the existence of any prophetic school. The view that sealing the instruction would allude to preserving prophetic teaching for the posterity is discounted here in favour of understanding the symbolic act as a metaphor from the legal sphere refering to authentication, with no inherent temporal significance.

In studies on the composition of prophetic literature, the larger textual layers reinterpreting earlier texts, the so-called Fortschreibungen, received much attention. It is well-known that beside these larger literary elaborations prophetic books also contain shorter explanatory interpolations, often called glosses, which intend to clarify a particular imagery of the prophecy (e.g., Isa 9:14). A systematic reading of these short annotations has been neglected, however, in studying the formation of prophetic books. The present article reconsiders the Isaiah-Memoir from this perspective. It identifies editorial interpolations in three distinct pericopes, Isa 8:2, 8:6-7a and 8:23b. It is argued here that the identification of such explanatory additions is the key to understanding notorious textual complexities. Moreover, it points out that these interpolations tend to expose recognisable patterns and common hermeneutical principles.

Embertársaink közül sokan egy méltatlanul nyomorúságos világban élnek – ennek hírei naponként érkeznek el hozzánk. A képernyőkön bejön lakásunkba a szegénység, s mi terített asztalunk mellől, minden nap dúsan vigadozva, bíborba és patyolatba öltözve tehetetlenül nézzük karosszékeinkből Lázárt, a koldust.

Nem tudom, kicsoda az ember (szerencsére nem vagyok egyedül, többek között a nyolcadik zsoltár szerzője is szolidáris velem), következésképpen azt sem, ki a mai ember. Továbbmenve pedig, még a fölöttébb gyanús ki vagyok én kérdés sem tekinthető csupán amolyan pubertáskori identitáskeresésnek; ne feledjük súlyos teológia- és filozófiatörténeti hozadékát. Itt csupán három alapmodellre utalok.