The Ascension of Isaiah

Vision & Martyrdom

The Ascension of Isaiah is a composite text in two parts: a Jewish martyrdom account in which the prophet Isaiah is sawn in two on the orders of King Manasseh, and a Christian vision in which Isaiah ascends through the seven heavens and witnesses the entire life of Jesus before it happens — the descent, the incarnation, the crucifixion, and the resurrection — as a cosmic drama played out in the he

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Context without the mythology.

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01 / Historical context

2nd century BC–2nd century AD. Read as canonical in some early churches. Contains an account of Christ’s descent through the seven heavens unlike anything in the Bible.

02 / Why it matters

Isaiah saw the entire life of Christ before it happened. The Church decided you shouldn’t know.

From / associated with the text

““And I saw One standing whose glory surpassed that of all, and His glory was great and wonderful, and after I had looked at Him, all the righteous whom I had seen and also the angels whom I had seen came to Him.””

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The Ascension of Isaiah

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