Strange: the original message quoted below by three respondents this
morning has not reached me directly. Perhaps it is still in transit. Are
other listmembers experiencing this "lag" problem today?
The tradition about Isaiah's death/martyrdom also appears in the short
version of the Paraleipomena Jeremiou 9.22 ("wooden saw"), where the
longer version is more vague (the people killed him, not by stoning).
See http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/courses/735/ParJer/ParJerET.html for
context. Hebrews 11.37 probably reflects this old tradition, which is
widely distributed in later Christian sources as well.
Bob Kraft
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> The Martyrdom of Isaiah, a Pseudepigraphical text that has
> parallels to
> Qumran terminology, contains a tradition that Isaiah was slain (sawn in
> two)
> by Manasseh. This spawned later references to the prophets having not
> only
> been ignored, but slain. Can anyone in the list tell me if this idea
> was
> also found in Qumran texts?
>
> Thanks,
> Russell Gmirkin
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