Selected Bibliography
Adams, L. La Mar. “A Scientific Analysis of Isaiah Authorship.” In Isaiah and the Prophets: Inspired Voices from the Old Testament, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr., 151–64. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1984.
Allis, Oswald T. The Unity of Isaiah: A Study in Prophecy. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1950.
Baloyi, M. E. “The Unity of the Book Isaiah: Neglected Evidence (Re-considered).” Old Testament Essays 20, no. 1 (2007): 105–127.
Beale, G. K. Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Ada, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.
Beale, G. K., and D. A. Carson, eds. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Ada, MI: Baker Academic, 2007.
Benson, Ezra Taft. “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet.” Brigham Young University devotional. February 26, 1980. https://
Benson, RoseAnn, and Shon D. Hopkin. “Finding Doctrine and Meaning in Book of Mormon Isaiah.” Religious Educator 15, no. 1 (2014): 95–122.
Berlin, Adele. The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
———. “Grammatical Aspects of Biblical Parallelism.” Hebrew Union College Annual 50 (1979): 17–43.
———. “Parallelism.” In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by David Noel Freedman, 5:155–62. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Blau, Joshua. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. 2nd, amended ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1993.
Blomberg, Craig L. “Matthew.” In Beale and Carson, Commentary on the New Testament, 1.
Boadt, Lawrence. “Intentional Alliteration in Second Isaiah.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly (July 1983): 353–63.
Bullinger, E. W. Appendixes to the Companion Bible. Windber, PA: Bible Student’s Press, 2017.
———. Figures of Speech Used in the Bible, Explained and Illustrated. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1968.
Burton, Gideon. “The Forest of Rhetoric,” Silva Rhetoricae, https://
Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “The Great Jerusalem Temple Prophecy: Latter-day Context and Likening unto Us.” In Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament (2013 Sperry Symposium), edited by Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Matthew J. Grey, and David Rolph Seely, 367–83. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013.
———. “The Insights of Third Isaiah: Observations of a Traditionalist.” In The Unperceived Continuity of Isaiah, edited by James H. Charlesworth, 76–93. London and New York: T&T Clark/
Charles, R. H., ed. “The Martyrdom of Isaiah.” In Pseudepigrapha, 155–162. Vol. 2 of The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.
Clines, David J. A., ed. The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. 9 vols. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993–2012.
Cloward, Robert A. “Isaiah 29 and the Book of Mormon.” In Parry and Welch, Isaiah in the Book of Mormon,191–247.
Collins, Terence. Line-Forms in Hebrew Poetry: A Grammatical Approach to the Stylistic Study of the Hebrew Prophets. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1978.
Davies, LeGrande. “Isaiah: Texts in the Book of Mormon.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, 2:700–701. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Eybers, I. H. “Some Examples of Hyperbole in Biblical Hebrew.” Semitics 1 (1970): 28–49.
Gee, John. “Applying Linguistic Dating to First Isaiah.” Paper presented at the Annual Society of Biblical Literature Conference, Denver, CO, November 2022.
———. “‘Choose the Things That Please Me’: On the Selection of the Isaiah Sections in the Book of Mormon.” In Parry and Welch, Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, 67–91.
Geller, Stephen A. Parallelism in Early Biblical Poetry. Harvard Semitic Monographs 20. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979.
Gesenius, Wilhelm. Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar, as edited and enlarged by E. Kautzsch. Translated by A. E. Cowley. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2006.
Ginzberg, Louis, trans. Legends of the Jews. 7 vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1941.
Gitay, Yehoshua. “Why Metaphors? A Study of the Texture of Isaiah.” In Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah: Studies of an Interpretive Tradition, edited by Craig C. Broyles and Craig A. Evans, 1:57–65. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
Glück, J. J. “Assonance in Ancient Hebrew Poetry: Sound Patterns as a Literary Device.” In De Fructu Oris Sui: Essays in Honour of Adrianus Van Selms, edited by I. H. Eybers, F. C. Fensham, C. J. Labuschagne, W. C. van Wyk, and A. H. van Zyl, 69–84. Leiden: Brill, 1971.
Good, Edwin M. Irony in the Old Testament. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965.
Gordis, Robert. “A Rhetorical Use of Interrogative Questions in Biblical Hebrew.” American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 49, no. 3 (1933): 212–17.
Harrison, R. K. Introduction to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1969.
Held, Moshe. “The Action-Result (Factitive-Passive) Sequence of Identical Verbs in Biblical Hebrew and Ugaritic.” Journal of Biblical Literature 84, no. 3 (1965): 272–82.
———. “The YQTL-QTL (QTL-YQTL) Sequence of Identical Verbs in Biblical Hebrew and in Ugaritic.” In Studies in Honor of Abraham A. Neuman, edited by Meir Ben-Horin, Bernard D. Weinryb, and Solomon Zeitlin, 281–90. Leiden: Brill, 1962.
Hendel, Ronald. Remembering Abraham: Culture, Memory, and History in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Hinckley, Gordon B. “These Noble Pioneers.” Brigham Young University devotional. February 2, 1997. https://
———. “We Testify of Jesus Christ.” Ensign or Liahona, March 2008, 1.
Hirsch, Emile G. “Hezekiah.” In Jewish Encyclopedia, edited by Isidore Singer et al., 6:379–383. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1904.
Holland, Jeffrey R. Christ and the New Covenant: The Messianic Message of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997.
———. “‘More Fully Persuaded’: Isaiah’s Witness of Christ’s Ministry.” In Parry and Welch, Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, 1–18.
Honeyman, A. M. “Merismus in Biblical Hebrew.” Journal of Biblical Literature 71, no. 1 (1952): 11–18.
Hopkin, Shon D. “Isaiah 52–53 and Mosiah 13–14: A Textual Comparison.” In Abinadi: He Came Among Them in Disguise, edited by Shon D. Hopkin. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2018. 139–66.
Hurvitz, Avi. “Can Biblical Texts Be Dated Linguistically? Chronological Perspectives in the Historical Study of Biblical Hebrew.” In Congress Volume: Oslo 1998, edited by André Lemaire and Magne Sæbø, 143–60. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 80. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
———. A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Innovations in the Writings of the Second Temple Period. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 160. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
———. “Linguistic Criteria for Dating Problematic Biblical Texts.” Hebrew Abstracts 14 (1973): 74–79.
———. “The Recent Debate on Late Biblical Hebrew: Solid Data, Experts’ Opinions, and Inconclusive Arguments.” Hebrew Studies 47 (2006): 191–210.
Jackson, Kent P. “Authorship of the Book of Isaiah.” In 1 Kings to Malachi, edited by Kent P. Jackson, 80–85. Vol. 4 of Studies in Scripture. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1993.
———. “Revelations concerning Isaiah (D&C 86 and 113).” In The Doctrine and Covenants, edited by Robert L. Millet and Kent P. Jackson, 326–34. Vol. 1 of Studies in Scripture. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1984.
Jakobson, Roman. “Grammatical Parallelism and its Russian Facet.” Language 42, no. 2 (1966): 399–429.
Josephus, Flavius. Antiquities of the Jews. In The Works of Flavius Josephus, translated by William Whiston. London, 1737.
Joüon, Paul, and Takamitsu Muraoka. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew: Third Reprint of the Second Edition, with Corrections. Rome: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2011.
Kaminka, Aaron (Armand). Mechkarim ba-Mikra v’Talmud, uva-Sifrut ha-Rabbanit [Studies in the Bible, Talmud, and Rabbinic Literature]. Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1938.
Kitis, Eliza. “Conditional Constructions as Rhetorical Structures.” In Working Papers in Linguistics, edited by Eliza Kitis, 30–51. Thessaloniki: Altintzis, 2004.
Kennedy, John. A Popular Argument for the Unity of Isaiah. London: James Clarke, 1891.
Kessler, Martin. “Inclusio in the Hebrew Bible.” Semitics 6 (1978): 44–49.
Koehler, Ludwig, and Walter Baumgartner. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
Kugel, James L. The Idea of Biblical Poetry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
Kuntz, J. Kenneth. “The Form, Location, and Function of Rhetorical Questions in Deutero-Isaiah.” In Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah: Studies of an Interpretive Tradition, edited by Craig C. Broyles and Craig A. Evans, 1:121–41. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 70. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
Lancaster, Mason D. “Metaphor Research and the Hebrew Bible.” Currents in Biblical Research 19, no. 3 (2021): 235–85.
Lange, Armin, and Matthias Weigold. Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Second Temple Jewish Literature. Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011.
Lias, J. J. “The Unity of Isaiah.” Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain 48 (1916): 65–84.
“The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles.” ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
Longman, Tremper III, and Dillard, Raymond B. An Introduction to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994.
Ludlow, Victor L. “Isaiah as Taught by the New Testament Apostles.” In The New Testament and the Latter-day Saints, Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, edited by H. Dean Garrett, 149–59. Orem, UT: Randall Book, 1987.
———. “Isaiah: Authorship.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, 2:699. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
———. Isaiah: Prophet, Seer, and Poet. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1982.
Lundbom, Jack R. Biblical Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism. Hebrew Bible Monographs 45. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2015.
MacDonald, Michael J., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Mackley, Jennifer Ann. Wilford Woodruff’s Witness: The Development of Temple Doctrine. Seattle: High Desert, 2014.
Madsen, Ann N., and Shon D. Hopkin. Opening Isaiah: A Harmony. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2018.
Margalioth, Rachel. The Indivisible Isaiah: Evidence for the Single Authorship of the Prophetic Book. Jerusalem: Sura Institute for Research; New York: Yeshiva University, 1964.
Mazar, Eilat. “Is This the Prophet Isaiah’s Signature?” Biblical Archaeological Review 44, no. 2 (2018): 64–73.
McConkie, Bruce R. “Ten Keys to Understanding Isaiah.” Ensign, October 1973, 78–83.
McConkie, Joseph Fielding, and Donald W. Parry. A Guide to Scriptural Symbols. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1990.
McConkie, Joseph Fielding, and Robert L. Millet. First and Second Nephi. Vol. 1 of Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987.
McKenzie, John L. Dictionary of the Bible. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Motyer, J. Alec. The Prophecy of Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993.
Muilenburg, J. A. “A Study in Hebrew Rhetoric: Repetition and Style.” In Congress Volume: Copenhagen 1953, edited by G. W. Anderson, Aage Bentzen, P. A. H. de Boer, Millar Burrows, Henri Cazelles, and Martin Noth, 97–111. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 1. Leiden: Brill, 1953.
Nelson, Russell M. “Hope of Israel.” Worldwide devotional for youth, June 3, 2018. ChurchofJesusChrist.org/
———. “Prophets, Leadership, and Divine Law.” Worldwide devotional for young adults, January 8, 2017. https://
———. “Scriptural Witnesses.” Ensign or Liahona, November 2007, 43–46.
Nesbitt, James H. “Metaphor and Metonymy and the Nations of Isaiah.” ThD diss., Grace Theological Seminary, 1991.
Nyman, Monte S. “Abinadi’s Commentary on Isaiah.” In The Book of Mormon: Mosiah, Salvation Only Through Christ, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr., 161–86. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1991.
Oaks, Dallin H. “Scripture Reading and Revelation.” Ensign, January 1995, 6–9.
———. “The Witness: Martin Harris.” Ensign, May 1999, 35–37.
Oswalt, John N. The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 1–39. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986.
Parry, Donald W. Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants. Supplements to the Textual History of the Bible 3. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
———. “Late Hebrew Forms in 1Qisaa.” In Sacred Texts and Disparate Interpretations: Qumran Manuscripts Seventy Years Later, Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 24–26 October 2017, edited by Henryk Drawnel, 209–35. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 133. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
———. “Nephi’s Keys to Understanding Isaiah (2 Nephi 25:1–8).” In Parry and Welch, Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, 47–65.
———. The Book of Isaiah: A New Translation (Preliminary Edition). Springville, UT: ScripturePlus and Book of Mormon Central, 2022.
———. “Isaiah, Understanding of.” In Book of Mormon Reference Companion, edited by Dennis Largey et al., 343–44. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003.
———. Preserved in Translation: Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020.
———. “Symbolic Action as Prophecy in the Old Testament.” In Thy People Shall Be My People and Thy God My God, Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, edited by Paul Y. Hoskisson, 84–100. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994.
———. “Unlocking Isaiah’s Closed Book: Figures of Speech, Literary Devices, and Writing Techniques.” In Steadfast in Defense of Faith: Essays in Honor of Daniel Peterson, 331–83. Orem, UT: Interpreter Foundation, 2023.
Parry, Donald W., Jay A. Parry, and Tina M. Peterson. Understanding Isaiah. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998.
Parry, Donald W., and Elisha Qimron, eds. The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa): A New Edition. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 32. Leiden: Brill, 1998.
Parry, Donald W., and John W. Welch, eds. Isaiah in the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: FARMS, 1998.
Paul, Shalom M. Isaiah 40–66: Translation and Commentary. Eerdmans Critical Commentary 10. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012.
———. “Signs of Late Biblical Hebrew in Isaiah 40–66.” In Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew, edited by Cynthia Miller-Naudé and Ziony Zevit, 293–300. Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 8. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2012.
Polan, Gregory J. In the Ways of Justice Toward Salvation: A Rhetorical Analysis of Isaiah 56–59. New York: Peter Lang, 1986.
Preminger, Alex, Frank J. Warnke, and O. B. Hardison Jr., eds. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Enlarged Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.
Radday, Yehuda T. The Unity of Isaiah in the Light of Statistical Linguistics. Hildesheim: Verlag Dr. H. A. Gerstenberg, 1973.
Ricks, Stephen D. “Many Times in Prophecy, the Present and Past Tenses Are Used, Even Though the Prophecy Refers to a Future Event. Can You Explain the Use of Verb Tenses in Prophecy?” Ensign, August 1988, 27–28.
Roberts, Brigham H. “Higher Criticism and the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 14, no. 8 (June 1911): 665–77; Improvement Era 14, no. 9 (July 1911): 774–86.
Ryken, Leland. How to Read the Bible as Literature . . . and get more out of it. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1984.
Schnittjer, Gary E. Old Testament Use of Old Testament: A Book-by-Book Guide. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2021.
Seely, David Rolph. “Nephi’s Use of Isaiah 2–14 in 2 Nephi 12–30.” In Parry and Welch, Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, 151–69.
Skousen, Royal. “Textual Variants in the Isaiah Quotations in the Book of Mormon.” In Parry and Welch, Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, 369–90.
———. “The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon: A Presentation on Parts 5 and 6 of Volume 3 of the Critical Text Project of the Book of Mormon, by Royal Skousen with an Introduction by Stanford Carmack.” Paper presented at the Hinckley Alumni Center, Brigham Young University, January 15, 2020. https://
———. Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. Provo, UT: FARMS, 2009.
———. Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon. Book of Mormon Critical Text Project 4. Provo, UT: FARMS, 2017.
Slotki, I. W. Isaiah: Hebrew Text and English Translation with an Introduction and Commentary. Soncino Books of the Bible 11. New York: Soncino Press, 1987.
Smith, Joseph. History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1957.
———. Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2007.
Smith, Joseph Fielding. Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith, compiled by Bruce R. McConkie. 3 vols. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1954.
Sperry, Sidney B. Answers to Book of Mormon Questions. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1967.
———. “The ‘Isaiah Problem’ in the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 42, no. 9 (September 1939): 524–25, 564–69; Improvement Era 42, no. 10 (October 1939): 594, 634, 636–37.
Talmage, James E. In Conference Report, April 1929, 45–49.
Torrey, Charles Cutler. The Second Isaiah: A New Interpretation. New York: Scribners, 1928.
Tov, Emanuel. “Exegesis and Theology in the Transmission of Isaiah.” In The Unperceived Continuity of Isaiah, edited by James H. Charlesworth, 94–127. Jewish and Christian Texts in Contexts and Related Studies 28. London and New York: T&T Clark/
Tvedtnes, John A. “Isaiah Variants in the Book of Mormon.” In Isaiah and the Prophets: Inspired Voices from the Old Testament, edited by Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, 165–77. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1984.
Van der Woude, A. “The Comfort of Zion: Personification in Isaiah 40–66.” In “Enlarge the Site of Your Tent”: The City as Unifying Theme in Isaiah, edited by Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen and Annemarieke van der Woude, 159–67. Old Testament Studies 58. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Waltke, Bruce K., and Michael Patrick O’Connor. An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1993.
Watson, Wilfred G. E. Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to its Techniques. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 26. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1984.
Welch, John W. “Authorship of the Book of Isaiah in Light of the Book of Mormon.” In Parry and Welch, Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, 423–37.
———. “Isaiah 53, Mosiah 14, and the Book of Mormon.” In Parry and Welch, Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, 293–312.
Williams, James G. “Irony and Lament: Clues to Prophetic Consciousness.” Semeia 8 (1977): 51–71.
Whitney, Orson F. “Latter-day Saint Ideals and Institutions.” Improvement Era 30, no. 10 (August 1927): 849–63.
Young, Edward J. Who Wrote Isaiah? Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1958.
Young, Ian, ed. Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 369. New York: T & T Clark, 2003.
Young, Ian, Robert Rezetko, and Martin Ehrensvärd. An Introduction to Approaches and Problems. Vol. 1 of Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts. London: Equinox Publishing, 2008.