L'oracle de Nathan et l'unité du livre d'Isaïe

This monograph enquires into the unity of the Book of Isaiah. Was the final text of Isaiah intended to give an answer to the prophet Nathan's questioning of YHWH's faithfulness to his promises to David (II Sam 7)? The background to Nathan's prophecy - anchored above all in the union between the Royal House of David and the House of YHWH - forms the thread leading the reader through the 66 chapters of the Book of Isaiah and presenting it as the inheritance of the promise. The added meaning given by the final redaction in its turn poses the question of the role played by redactors in the prophetic literature.

Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of Professor Jean-Pierre Sonnet, Brussels. Dominique Janthial is now professor of Hebrew and Sacred Scriptures at the Institut d'Etudes Théologiques, Brussels, and invited professor at the Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis, Rome.

"This study offers many refreshing and profound insights in the book of Isaiah as a unified whole. This book should certainly be a welcome addition to current Isaiah scholarship."
Hyun Chul Paul Kim in: Biblica 3/2006

"L'étude de Dominique Janthial est fort convaicante; soutout elle ouvre à la recherche prophétique de nouvelles voies."
Recherches des Sciences Religieuses 4/2005

"A fascinating and thought-provoking study which has much to contribute on appropriate ways of reading Isaiah."
R. J. Coggins in: Book List 05/2005