Day 556 of 1000

This is day 10 of not driving the new car.

I read Isaiah 45 today.  The prophecy of Cyrus there is amazing.  I spent some time looking at the history of all this.  The finding of the complete text of Isaiah amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls dealt a further blow to those who have tried to ascribe authorship to several authors, at least one of which would have post-dated Cyrus.  This liberal theory is based primarily on the idea that it is not possible to prophecy the future and secondary on stylistic differences.  You can see images of The Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa on this page.  After having studied it some, the multiple author theory does not make a whole lot of sense to me.  Here is a pretty good, concise breakdown of the competing theories and why the single author theory makes the most sense.