The Book of Judith Expands the Prophet Isaiah
by Damien F. Mackey This is a revised version of the “Excursus: Life and Times of Hezekiah’s Contemporary, Isaiah” in my thesis: A Revised History of the Era of King Hezekiah of Judah and its Background http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5973 Isaiah and his Father Amos Relevant to my efforts to merge KCI (Kings, Chronicles and Isaiah) with BOJ (the Book of Judith) is the need now to test whether Isaiah finds his appropriate match in the Simeonite Uzziah, chief magistrate of Bethulia (BOJ) , who – in the context of my reconstruction –must have been a great man in Hezekiah’s kingdom. We saw recently, in Chapter 3 (on p. 67), that Uzziah was entitled both ‘the prince of Judah’ and ‘the prince of the people of Israel’. Now such an identification, of Isaiah with Uzziah, would necessitate that Uzziah’s father, Micah, be the same as Isaiah’s father, Amos (or Amoz). This is interesting. Whilst the names Amos and Micah do not i