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Isaiah and Micah: Assyrian Crisis

  1. Lesson One
    Isaiah - YHWH and the Nations
    22 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Isaiah - YHWH and His People
    23 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  3. Lesson Three
    Isaiah's Anticipated Messiah
    24 Activities
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    4 Assessments
  4. Lesson Four
    The Authorship and Unity of Isaiah
    24 Activities
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    4 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    Micah
    17 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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Let’s return to the unifying topics in Isaiah by looking at the cultural background of one of the rich cultural metaphors we surveyed In The Text. It is referenced in all three sections of Isaiah.

A reconstructed Iron Age potter’s wheel at Ekron.

Another reconstructed slow potter’s wheel at Kom Ombo, shown with pottery assemblage.

A modern woman working with a potter’s wheel at Eretz Israel Museum.

Both slow and fast potter’s wheels allowed people to quickly manufacture diverse pottery assemblages. Pots came in all shapes and sizes, basic and intricate. 

Pottery was ubiquitous in the ancient world. As you know by this point, some pots were decorative, often used for ceremonial reasons, but most were used for mundane reasons—drinking, eating, cooking, storing and a host of other daily actions. 

Sources: James M. Freeman and Harold J. Chadwick, Manners & Customs of the Bible, 1998; Richard Myers, Images from Illustrations of the Bible from the Monuments of Egypt, 2011.