Abstract
In poetic and prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible exegetes often find participants that are not or not fully identified. In discussing Talstra's methodology, this phenomenon is of interest, because the identification of participants plays a significant role in his approach to the Old Testament. Talstra's approach confronts us with the question of how to deal with the gaps of information in the texts. Should one try to fill them in with the help of information from outside of the texts? Should one leave them open and put emphasis on the indeterminacy of these texts? Is it possible to leave the gaps open for the time being and to fill them in later? The chapter considers these questions in searching for the identification of the anonymous addressees in Isaiah 40:1-2. Keywords: Hebrew Bible; Isaiah 40:1-2; Jerusalem's Comforters; Old Testament; prophetic texts; Talstra's methodology
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