PROPHET ISAIAH

GROUP 6

LIFE OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH

 SON OF AMOS  BORN IN THE 8TH CENTURY B.C.  BORN AND LIVED IN JERUSALEM  HEBREW NAME YESHAYHU MEANS GOD IS SALVATION  DESCENDED FROM A ROYAL TRIBE  A JUDEAN PROPHET  PHROPHESIED IN THE DAYS OF OZIAS  MARRIED TO A WOMAN NAMED THE PROPHETESS  HAD 2 SONS SHEAR JASHUB WHOSE NAME MEANS A REMNANT WILL RETURN AND MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ MEANING QUICK PREY  THE TURNING POINT IN ISAIAH S LIFE WAS HIS CALL TO PROPHECY WHICH CAME TO ISAIAH IN THE VISION IN THE TEMPLE

THE WORKS OF PROPHET ISAIAH

 REGARDED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PROPHETS IN JUDAISM  HIS BOOK OF PROPHECY IS DIVIDED INTO SIXTY SIX CHAPTERS  IMMENSELY BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF GOD AND SAID THE WORLD BELONGS TO THE ALMIGHTY AND HE WOULD DESTROY IT AS WELL  ADIVISED PEOPLE TO TURN TO GOD FOR EVERYTHING IN LIFE AND IS DISPELASED BY THE LACK OF FAITH  MAIN FIGURE IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH AND IS SOMETIMES CONSIDERED AS ITS AUTHOR  TO ISAIAH THE WORD KADOSH HOLY MEANT RIGHTEOUSNESS  TO OBEY GOD S WILL WAS TO BE JUST , AND ZION WILL EVENTUALLY BE REDEEMED IN JUSTICE

DEATH OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH

DIED IN THE REIGN OF KING MANESSEH ACCORDING TO THE JERUSALEM TALMUD, ISAIAH HAD BEEN FOUND HIDING IN THE CEDAR TREE, THE TREE WAS CUT IN HALF SAWING ISAIAH INTO HALF AS WELL

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