When something (usually a name) if prefixed by "Deutero-" what does that mean. E.g. Deutero-Isaiah, Deutuero-Asaph and Deutero-Chronicler. I know it has something to do with textual criticism....

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Richard
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I think it refers to disputed books in the canon, or "second canon."

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Mason
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New York, NY

"Come now, and let us reason together," says the Lord, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." - Isaiah 1:18

It refers to the theory that a second author wrote part of Isaiah, and that it wasn't Isaiah himself. So, it actually has to do with source criticism (and hence redaction criticism), not so much textual criticism.

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Source critics have broken Isa up into 2 or 3 books from discernably different hands. It became popular in liberal circles along with dividing the Pentateuch into J, E, P, and D strands (based largely on preferences for different words for God). Many conservatives have answered this atomizing analysis quite capably.

Any suggested reading.

A good outline of the arguments for the unity of Isaiah: Isaiah wrote Isaiah

An online article by J. Barton Payne: http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pd...aiah_payne.pdf

—J.A. Alexander, Prophecies of Isaiah (1847)
—F. Delitzsch, “Isaiah,” Imperial Bible Dictionary, III, 158-171 (1886)
—G. L. Robinson, “Isaiah,” ISBE, III, 1495-1508 (1929)
—O.T. Allis, The Unity of Isaiah (1954)
—E. J. Young, Studies in Isaiah (1954); Introduction to the OT, pp. 202-11 (1958); Who Wrote Isaiah? (1958); and his commentary on Isaiah, III, App. I, “The Authorship of Isaiah,” pp. 538-49 (posthumous, 1972)
—Rachel Margalioth, The Indivisible Isaiah (1964)
—Gleason L. Archer, A Survey of OT Introduction, pp. 317-39
—R. K. Harrison, Introduction to the OT, pp. 764-95 [but calls “Cyrus” text a gloss, pp.794-95](1969)
—Victor Buksbazen, The Prophet Isaiah (1971)
—J. Ridderbos, Isaiah (Bible Student’s Commentary; (1985)

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