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The Theme of Perception and Imperception in the Book of Isaiah

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Du, Nana (2024) The Theme of Perception and Imperception in the Book of Isaiah. PhD thesis, University of Gloucestershire. doi:10.46289/8S9T44LD

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Abstract

The theme of (im)perception, which embraces the physical (not-)seeing/hearing with the intellectual and spiritual (mis-)understanding, occurs significantly as the message of the mission of the prophet Isaiah of the 8th century BCE (6:9-10), yet is taken up beyond 6:9-10, and develops in relation to different groups of people and to different other themes throughout the three main divisions of the book of Isaiah. The theme of (im)perception has been recognized by some scholars as a way of viewing the book of Isaiah as a unity, though there is no monograph in the scholarship tracing systematically how this theme develops throughout the book of Isaiah, whereas the most related monograph, Uhlig’s The Theme of Hardening in the Book of Isaiah, only concentrates on Isaiah 6 and Isaiah 40-66. Taking the thematic approach with a close investigation of the Isaianic texts in which the theme of (im)perception occurs in semantic or conceptual terms in Isaiah 1-12, 28-35, 40-55 and 56-66, this study will demonstrate that the theme of (im)perception is a topic that the whole composition reflects on, and that it develops along with the other themes of the book, such as the theme of the righteousness, the relationship between Jerusalem and nations and the light and darkness.

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