Isaiah, Cyrus, and the Exile

Second isaiah one of the best known passages in the old testament. Conservatives have tended to argue that w ys? The exile is assumed from chapter forty on, but it's still written in the eighth century and it's still petic. How can the writer living in the eighth Century talk about a future event in the past tense? Fok. You see that the exile is already a thing. In fact, it already happened, right? They were carted off a long time ago. And making up an explanation to make the pieces fit together in ways reused seeing them is not an open minded position that takes into account what the text is actually doing.