The Book of Isaiah is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the major prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the
Michelangelo (c. 1508–12), Isaiah, Vatican City: Sistine Chapel ceiling
Detail of entrance to 30 Rockefeller Plaza showing verse from Isaiah 33:6 Rockefeller Center, New York
The Isaiah Scroll, the oldest surviving manuscript of Isaiah: found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and dating from about 150 to 100 BCE, it contains almost the whole Book of Isaiah and is substantially identical with the modern Masoretic Text
Isaiah 2:4 is taken as an unofficial mission statement by the United Nations. (Isaiah Wall in Ralph Bunche Park, a New York City park near UN headquarters.)
Isaiah was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.
Book of Isaiah
…and the first of the major prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet Isaiah, but there is evidence that much of it was composed during the Babylonian captivity and later. Johann Christoph Döderlein suggested in 1775 that the…
Fresco from the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo
Russian icon of the Prophet Isaiah, 18th century (iconostasis of Transfiguration Church, Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia)
Isaiah receives his vision of the LORD's house. A stained glass window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Painting of Isaiah by Antonio Balestra