Book of Isaiah

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The Book of Isaiah (Hebrew: ספר ישעיהו [ˈseː.fɛr jə.ʃaʕ.ˈjɔː.huː]) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the major prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the prophet Isaiah, who is dated to the 8th century BCE, but there is evidence that much of it was composed during the Babylonian captivity and later. Johann Christoph Döderlein suggested in 1775 that the book contained the works of two prophets separated by more than a century, and Bernhard Duhm originated the view, held as a consensus through most of the 20th century, that the book comprises three separate collections of oracles: Proto-Isaiah (chapters 1–39), containing the words of the prophet Isaiah, dated to the 8th century BCE; Deutero-Isaiah, or "the Book of Consolation", (chapters 40–55), the work of an anonymous author writing during the Exile in the 6th century BCE; and Trito-Isaiah (chapters 56–66), composed after the return from Exile.

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