Isaiah subtly and ironically subverts Genesis 2 in order to ridicule Moab’s origin. Mo-ab means “Who’s your father?” For the introduction to this section (Isaiah 15-16), see Isaiah’s Kill...
My latest at Theopolis Institute Isaiah 21 can only be understood in the light of its placement in the architecture of the second “volume”...
The three stages of this serpentine rod are not only the increasing strength of the threat to the Philistines, but also the “birth order”...
The “fall of Lucifer” is the height of irony because it runs the pattern of the Tabernacle backwards. The king’s climb from the lowest...
In a grim satire, Sheol is portrayed as a negative world, a moon shadow that parodies the lunar calendar of Israel but where the...
The barrenness of Babylon is depicted through an inversion of Solomon’s Canticle. Instead of pasture there is wilderness; instead of the merry songs of...
Unlike Babel, Babylon was not a “tower to heaven,” but the arrogance of its rulers was an offense whose stink ascended to the court...
The Boaz column focuses upon Israel’s renewed dominion of the earth. But to do so, it must first wipe the slate of rebellious man...
The reversal of the Creation pattern signifies a judgment of the utmost severity. De-creation means it would be as though the old World never...
In an ironic reprise of the table of nations in Genesis 10, Isaiah’s “kill list” in chapters 13-27 is a twin set of Mosaic...