Isaiah

Who is Isaiah?

Isaiah was a prophet said by the Biblical Book of Isaiah to have lived in the 8th-century BC Kingdom of Judah.

The exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and any such historical Isaiah remains the subject of ongoing scholarly discussion. One widespread view sees parts of the first half of the book as originating with the historical prophet, interspersed with prose commentaries written in the time of King Josiah a hundred years later; with the remainder of the book dating from immediately before and immediately after the end of the exile in Babylon, almost two centuries after the time of the original prophet. Jews and Christians consider the Book of Isaiah a part of their Biblical canon; he is the first listed of the neviim akharonim, the latter prophets.