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Many of the Old Testament prophets must have seemed odd indeed. Jeremiah, by his own admission, had a tremor "like a drunken man" (Jeremiah 23: 9), and Isaiah "walked naked and barefoot three years" (Isaiah 20: 3). Many of their Jewish contemporaries were skeptical of the prophets-and some people are skeptical still. Literary critics may see Isaiah as nothing more than a wild Hebrew bard, and psychoanalysts may explain the posturings and mutters of Hosea as the upshot of repressed sexual feelings...
...guide it will most likely be a graceful, analytic but highly sympathetic discussion of the ideas of individuals and of the times and places they were used. Joll often seems very like a quieter, more diffident, more wistful version of a man he describes with great admiration. Sir Isaiah Berlin (who will, incidentally, stay at Harvard this Fall) has "had a vast influence on everyone of my generation;" he is "an ebullient figure, with an endless flow of ideas and speculations and paradoxes; an excellent historian of ideas. Others may simply write: 'Hegel said this, and it was wrong...
...King James Version is, undeniably, one of the glories of the English language. Its prose, as Herbert Read has noted, exemplifies "all the characteristics of a true narrative style--correctness, economy and speed." Its rhythms are supple, pleasing and forceful--ranging from the near hexameters of Isaiah's cry, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" (Isa. xiv: 12) to the bold anapests of the song of Moses, "My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew." (Deut. xxxii, 2). And then the publication of the Authorized Version came...
Sulzbach notes in her analysis of his position, he focuses on the fact that Jesus refers to himself as the "Son of Man" in combination with Isaiah's concept of the "Suffering Servant of God" (Mark 10:45 and Mark 8:31). The title, Son of man, was not current in popular Judaism. It was only in esoteric circles of late Judaism that the nationalistic idea of the Messiah as the redeemer of Israel was replaced by the apocalyptic conception of the Son of man "as the hidden Messiah who, at the end of time, will come to judge...
...approaches each composition as a problem upto itself, with its distinctive problems, medium and form. Conceiving of the quartet as a "series of events," he is concerned with the internal logic and organic development of that piece alone; no larger harmonic or formal systems restrict him. He is, in Isaiah Berlin's category...