Word: isaiah
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...Testament was such a success, Phillips admits, that people pestered him to try the Old as well. Now Macmillan has published in the U.S. Phillips' first attempt to put the Hebrew books in English, a translation of Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah called Four Prophets...
...other actors in Hud provide good support for Newman. Melvyn Douglas' Homer is a bit too Isaiah-like; he oversimplifies his role, but without serious damage to the film's impact. Brandon de Wilde, as Lon, performs with the right mixture of naivete and poignant adolescent embarrasment. Patricia Neal, as Alma, the maid, is outstanding; she is convincing and matter-of-fact...
...Word, and treat it as a puzzling mound of poetry. Yet at its best, scholarship not only clears up misinterpretation but strengthens belief. It has long since established, for example, that Isaiah was written by two, perhaps even three, writers who lived centuries apart-a conclusion that may have startled the faithful at first but now makes their understanding of the book all the easier...
...addition to its thematic depth and brilliance "Shout" reveals technical mastery. With all the craft and subtlety of Eliot employing allusions to the Blood of Isaiah, the Isley Brothers artfully weave passages from Jackie Wilson's "Lonley Teardrops" and Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" into the song deepening its meaning without harming its organic unity...
...only for what he does and says. Unlike the mystics, the prophets did not express the ineffable glory of God, but spoke of specific situations-the machinations of Jewish foreign policy, or the selling of debtors into slavery during the reign of King Jeroboam II (circa 786-746 B.C.). Isaiah, for example, declares that the Almighty will condemn a military alliance between Israel and Egypt...