The Enochian reading of Isaiah

Dr Oklatubbee who has a PhD you know has Thoughts about the Isaiah higher-criticism: The belief in multiple authors has some merit, but it denies the prophet’s ability to speak about and predict future events.

I'd thought that as of 2022 any doctorate-class Thoughts on Isaiah would have been answered already. I have mine own Thoughts - about how Oklatubbee can imagine he can get away with poasts like this; but I'll save them to the end.

We're here to discuss the difference between a prophet like Isaiah (or Micah, or Jeremiah); and a seer like Enoch. It all comes down to this: the prophet comes to the generation of his own time and place, to warn them, what will happen if they disobey the word of G-d. Although I (like the Yachad around Qumran) do not hold the book of Jonah to be Prophetic, that book did work amongst the Prophets so knew what Problematics to counter.

Enoch, by contrast, is a fraud - at least, the Dream Visions ascribed to him are so fraudulent. The main Dream Vision claims temporal precedence over Torah(!) but, in fact, addresses a Maccabean-era society. And to the extent pseudoËnoch might warn the present (postHellenic) people, the book steals momentum from its purported antediluvian antiquity for its miraculous predictive powers.

Oklatubbee not being Ethiopian and owning a PhD you know certainly knows all this. But he's here to steal the same momentum for Isaiah, fl. early 700s BC; where the chapters 40f. now ascribed to that prophet handle events centuries later.

Imagine if the real Isaiah, or let's say Micah or Amos, after delivering his warning had then gone on (and on): well, then we'll get Manasseh as King, who'll do it all wrong, and will rule a prosperous pluralist Judah; but later we will be in a tug-o'-war between Pharaoh Psamtik and the Babylonians; which, you know, we're screwed either way; but we'll come back due to the - I guess you'd call them Medes? This isn't a warning. This dilutes the warning! The Jews would just dismiss this rambling Nostradamus and keep on keepin' on.

Also to be pointed out is the intertextuality in our Bible itself. The books of Reigns quotes Isaiah 1-39; Jeremiah MT 26 quotes Micah. Beyond Isaiah 40, there's 4Q380 which by roundabout means ends up in 1 Chronicles 16. The same tools, by the way, which show that; also show that 11Q11 altered Psalm 91, which is then demonstrated as early.

Supposedly hidden texts do suspiciously appear in our Biblical record, as the Book of Torah which King Josiah conveniently found in the Temple (classically this was supposed to be Deuteronomy). In the case of Isaiah 41f, some might ask how even tendentious Bible authors didn't know to "discover" those lost oracles - somewhere, anywhere. These chapters have no record at all before the Iranian domination. The most-likely reason is that those chapters were written under Iranian dominance, and it hadn't occurred to anybody to ascribe clearly-Persian-era oracles to a prophet centuries before. I mean: until the Enochian scribes started their work, and lost oracles started popping up all over Judaea.

And yes we Christians may deny from a Prophet his ability to predict events centuries ahead of him and of his audience. I am aware that Daniel 7 exists; to Hell with that. This is of the same thesis we deny from G-d Himself, not that ability so much; but His willingness, to remove from Man, whom He loves, our free will.

And if a Christian can't see that, he has no business ministering to Christians.