Isaiah and Intertextuality

In 2020, the group is exploring intertextual links between Isaiah and the Nevi’im, with four invited papers.

• Andrew Abernethy, Wheaton College (Illinois), Presiding
• Wilson de Angelo Cunha, LeTourneau University, Presiding
• Hugh G. M. Williamson, University of Oxford
  Isaiah and Jeremiah (25 min)
• Beth M. Stovell, Ambrose University College and Seminary
  Of King and Coal, Hearing and Hardening: Ezekiel’s Intertextual Use of Isaiah in Conceptualizing Divine Presence and Prophetic Call (25 min)
• Alphonso Groenewald, University of Pretoria
  Social justice versus cult criticism in Isaiah (1:10–20) and Amos (5:21–24)? A Trauma Perspective (25 min)
• Mark Boda, McMaster Divinity College
  Isaiah in Zechariah: Assyria and Babylon in the Redemptive Plan for Zion (25 min)
• Discussion (15 min)

This year, the group is exploring intertextual links between Isaiah and the Torah with a focus on Isaiah and Numbers/Deuteronomy.

• Andrew Abernethy, Wheaton College (Illinois), Introduction
  Wilson de Angelo Cunha, LeTourneau University, Introduction (5 min)
• Christopher Seitz, Wycliffe College in the University of Toronto
  Where Does Intertextuality Fit? (20 min)
• Richard Schultz, Wheaton College (Illinois)
  Building on the Beginnings: Isaiah’s Diverse Use of Genesis (20 min)
• Seulgi Byun, Grove City College
  Exodus and Covenant in Second Isaiah: Reconsidering the Role of the Mosaic Covenant (20 min)
• Mark Brett, Whitley College
  Reading the Holiness Material alongside Isaiah in the Persian Period (20 min)
• Ntozakhe Cezula, Stellenbosch University
  אלהי נכר (Foreign Gods) as an Organising Theological Concept for Ancient Israel: Tapping Deuteronomy & Isaiah for Theological Insights for Community Reconstruction (20 min)
• Discussion (15 min)