Some Notes On Second Isaiah 1)

Abstract

In the following notes references to the Hebrew text are to Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 1968 (BHS) for passages from Isaiah, supplemented for some of the Qumran references by M. BURROWS, The Dead Sea Scrolls of St. Mark's Monastery, Vol. 1, New Haven, 1950; the seventh edition of Biblia Hebraica (BHK) has been used for passages from the rest of the Old Testament. The following editions of the versions have been used: LXX, Septuaginta, ed. J. ZIEGLER, G6ttingen, vol. XIV (1939) for passages from Isaiah, and vol. XV (1957) for passages from Jeremiah, and for passages from the rest of the Old Testament Septuaginta, ed. A. RAHLFS, 5th edition, Stuttgart, 1952; Targum, ed. A. SPERBER, The Bible in Aramaic, Leiden, 1959 ff., compared for passages from Isaiah with J. F. STENNING, The Targum of Isaiah, Oxford, 1949; Peshitta, ed. A. M. CERIANI (Translatio Syra Pescitto Veteris Testamenti ex codice Ambrosiano Sec. Fere VIphotolithographice edita), Milan, 1876-1883, compared for passages from Isaiah with G. DIETTRICH, Ein Apparatus Criticus Zur Pesitto Zum Propheten Jesaia, BZA Wviii, 1905; Vulgate, Biblia Sacra iuxta Latinam Vulgatam versionem ad codicum fidem iussu Pii. XI Cura et Studio Monachorum abbatiae pontificae sancti Hieronymi in urbe ordinis sancti Benedicti edita, 1926 if., except for the passages from Jeremiah where Biblia Sacra iuxta Vulgatam versionem, ed. R. WEBER, Stuttgart, 1969, has been used; Old Latin, P. SABATIER, Bibliorum SacrorumLatinae Versiones Antiquae seu Vetus Italica, Paris, 1751. For Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion the 1964 reprint of F. FIELD, Origenis Hexaplorum Quae Supersunt, Oxford, 1875, was used. The following abbreviations have been used for the English versions: RV (Revised Version), RSV (Revised Standard Version), and NEB (New English Bible). I have also used the common abbreviations MT (Masoretic Text), BDB (F. BROWN, S. R. DRIVER, and C. A. BRIGGS, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament,