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This is a literary critical analysis on Isaiah 2:5-22 which is notorious for its textual ambiguities due to vague literary unit, occasional repetitions of similar words, radical changes of person and etc. Traditional historical critical approaches regard the problems as the result of complicated history of textual redactions. Recent new literary critical methods, however,consider them clues for new understandings of the text. In particular,Robert Alter proposes “rhetoric of entrapment” and “techniques of repetition”as effective tools for the interpretation of the prophetic poetry. This paper seeks to find special features of Isaiah’s oracle of judgment in both dimensions of literature and theology. The main part of this paper is composed of two sections. The first section deals with three problems of the text: the Pericope, Textual Problems, and Shifts of Person. The second section is a result of the solution of the problems. A structure of the pericope will show how the central theme, exaltation of Yahweh and humilation of human beings, is developed within the literary unity. Also, the genre of the text will point a different literary type from the traditional prophetic announcement of judgment, which is judgment oracle in paradox. Finally, discussions of the purpose of the text will guide us the function and settings of this literature. Some theological issues such as the chosen city of Jerusalem, judgment against human hubris, accusation of the Israelites’ idolatry as well as the exaltation of God and human humbleness are discussed. Yet, the central theme of the text is the fearful and glorious presence of God in the day of Yahweh that claims cosmological sovereignty of Yahweh. The eschatological vision reveals post-exilic backgrounds of the text and suggests the aim of this prophecy as exhortation of endurance in faith and hope.
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Isaiah 2:5-22, Rhetorical Critical Analysis, Shifts of Person, Announcement of Judgment, Day of Yahweh
