The Book of Isaiah (ספר ישעיהו) is the first of the Later Prophets in the Hebrew Bible. It is identified by a some outside sources as the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet Isaiah ben Amoz, but there is extensive evidence that much of it was composed during the Babylonian exile and later.
Brief overview of the chapters
- 1–12: Statements against Judah mostly from Isaiah’s early years;
- 13–23: Statements against foreign nations from his middle years;
- 24–27: The “Isaiah Apocalypse”, added at a much later date;
- 28–33: Statements from Isaiah’s later ministry
- 34–35: A vision of Zion, perhaps a later addition;
- 36–39: Stories of Isaiah’s life, some from the Book of Kings
- 40-54: Israel and Jerusalem
- 55-66: Stories by other prophets after the return from Babylon