Martyrdom of isaiah the prophet biography

The first five chapters of The Martyrdom of Isaiah are a Jewish expansion of 2 Kings, detailing the death of Isaiah.

How old was isaiah when god called him

Chapters 6-11 are a Christian work that details Isaiah’s ascension through the seven heavens. This section is akin to the apocalyptic literature of Enoch in that Isaiah’s soul is ushered through various stages of heaven.

Each section is a composite of various sources. This complicates the dating of the book.

How old was isaiah when he died

The Jewish section was likely written in Hebrew and translated into Greek. Hebrews 11 appears to refer to the martyrdom of Isaiah (“some were sawn asunder”) or the same tradition that Isaiah the prophet was martyred by being sawn in half.

This would imply a date before the late first century. (See Emily J. Gathergood’s Ascension of Isaiah at North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature)

The story of Isaiah’s death at the hand of Manasseh is similar to Second Maccabees (the martyrdom of the seven brothers and Eleazar), so a