Sophia Scriptura

The Ascension of Isaiah

Ascensio Isaiae

About the English. The work was written in Greek, which survives only in fragments; the complete text is the Ethiopic version. No original-language text suitable for this site is in hand, so the English here is R. H. Charles's translation of the Ethiopic (London, 1900), published as it stands. No original-language text is shown.

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Contents

Reading pages: 1.1–6.17 · 7.1–10.31 · 11.1–11.43

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.3
  4. 1.4
  5. 1.5
  6. 1.6
  7. 1.7
  8. 1.8
  9. 1.9
  10. 1.10
  11. 1.11
  12. 1.12
  13. 1.13
  14. 2.1
  15. 2.2
  16. 2.3
  17. 2.4
  18. 2.5
  19. 2.6
  20. 2.7
  21. 2.8
  22. 2.9
  23. 2.10
  24. 2.11
  25. 2.12
  26. 2.13
  27. 2.14
  28. 2.15
  29. 2.16
  30. 3.1
  31. 3.2
  32. 3.3
  33. 3.4
  34. 3.5
  35. 3.6
  36. 3.7
  37. 3.8
  38. 3.9
  39. 3.10
  40. 3.11
  41. 3.12
  42. 3.13
  43. 3.14
  44. 3.15
  45. 3.16
  46. 3.17
  47. 3.18
  48. 3.19
  49. 3.20
  50. 3.21
  51. 3.22
  52. 3.23
  53. 3.24
  54. 3.25
  55. 3.26
  56. 3.27
  57. 3.28
  58. 3.29
  59. 3.30
  60. 3.31
  61. 4.1
  62. 4.2
  63. 4.3
  64. 4.4
  65. 4.5
  66. 4.6
  67. 4.7
  68. 4.8
  69. 4.9
  70. 4.10
  71. 4.11
  72. 4.12
  73. 4.13
  74. 4.14
  75. 4.15
  76. 4.16
  77. 4.17
  78. 4.18
  79. 4.19
  80. 4.20
  81. 4.21
  82. 4.22
  83. 5.1
  84. 5.2
  85. 5.3
  86. 5.4
  87. 5.5
  88. 5.6
  89. 5.7
  90. 5.8
  91. 5.9
  92. 5.10
  93. 5.11
  94. 5.12
  95. 5.13
  96. 5.14
  97. 5.15
  98. 5.16
  99. 6.1
  100. 6.2
  101. 6.3
  102. 6.4
  103. 6.5
  104. 6.6
  105. 6.7
  106. 6.8
  107. 6.9
  108. 6.10
  109. 6.11
  110. 6.12
  111. 6.13
  112. 6.14
  113. 6.15
  114. 6.16
  115. 6.17
  116. 7.1
  117. 7.2
  118. 7.3
  119. 7.4
  120. 7.5
  121. 7.6
  122. 7.7
  123. 7.8
  124. 7.9
  125. 7.10
  126. 7.11
  127. 7.12
  128. 7.13
  129. 7.14
  130. 7.15
  131. 7.16
  132. 7.17
  133. 7.18
  134. 7.19
  135. 7.20
  136. 7.21
  137. 7.22
  138. 7.23
  139. 7.24
  140. 7.25
  141. 7.26
  142. 7.27
  143. 7.28
  144. 7.29
  145. 7.30
  146. 7.31
  147. 7.32
  148. 7.33
  149. 7.34
  150. 7.35
  151. 7.36
  152. 7.37
  153. 8.1
  154. 8.2
  155. 8.3
  156. 8.4
  157. 8.5
  158. 8.6
  159. 8.7
  160. 8.8
  161. 8.9
  162. 8.10
  163. 8.11
  164. 8.12
  165. 8.13
  166. 8.14
  167. 8.15
  168. 8.16
  169. 8.17
  170. 8.18
  171. 8.19
  172. 8.20
  173. 8.21
  174. 8.22
  175. 8.23
  176. 8.24
  177. 8.25
  178. 8.26
  179. 8.27
  180. 8.28
  181. 9.1
  182. 9.2
  183. 9.3
  184. 9.4
  185. 9.5
  186. 9.6
  187. 9.7
  188. 9.8
  189. 9.9
  190. 9.10
  191. 9.11
  192. 9.12
  193. 9.14
  194. 9.15
  195. 9.16
  196. 9.17
  197. 9.18
  198. 9.19
  199. 9.20
  200. 9.21
  201. 9.22
  202. 9.23
  203. 9.24
  204. 9.25
  205. 9.26
  206. 9.27
  207. 9.28
  208. 9.29
  209. 9.30
  210. 9.31
  211. 9.32
  212. 9.33
  213. 9.34
  214. 9.35
  215. 9.36
  216. 9.37
  217. 9.38
  218. 9.39
  219. 9.40
  220. 9.41
  221. 9.42
  222. 10.1
  223. 10.2
  224. 10.3
  225. 10.4
  226. 10.5
  227. 10.6
  228. 10.7
  229. 10.8
  230. 10.9
  231. 10.10
  232. 10.11
  233. 10.12
  234. 10.13
  235. 10.14
  236. 10.15
  237. 10.16
  238. 10.17
  239. 10.18
  240. 10.19
  241. 10.20
  242. 10.21
  243. 10.22
  244. 10.23
  245. 10.24
  246. 10.25
  247. 10.26
  248. 10.27
  249. 10.28
  250. 10.29
  251. 10.30
  252. 10.31
  253. 11.1
  254. 11.2
  255. 11.3
  256. 11.4
  257. 11.5
  258. 11.6
  259. 11.7
  260. 11.8
  261. 11.9
  262. 11.10
  263. 11.11
  264. 11.12
  265. 11.13
  266. 11.14
  267. 11.15
  268. 11.16
  269. 11.17
  270. 11.18
  271. 11.19
  272. 11.20
  273. 11.21
  274. 11.22
  275. 11.23
  276. 11.24
  277. 11.25
  278. 11.26
  279. 11.27
  280. 11.28
  281. 11.29
  282. 11.30
  283. 11.31
  284. 11.32
  285. 11.33
  286. 11.34
  287. 11.35
  288. 11.36
  289. 11.37
  290. 11.38
  291. 11.39
  292. 11.40
  293. 11.41
  294. 11.42
  295. 11.43

About this work

Author
Anonymous
Attribution
pseudonymous · Presented as the vision of the prophet Isaiah and the account of his martyrdom; written by early Christians (the Martyrdom in chapters 1–5 probably reworks an older Jewish legend). Not by Isaiah.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Christian apocalypse; its martyrdom of Isaiah is used by Origen and others; Epiphanius says some sects also used it.
Date
late 1st–2nd century (disputed) · The parts are of different dates; the Vision (chapters 6–11) and the Christian material in 3.13–4.22 are usually put in the late first or second century.
Written at
Syria or Palestine (uncertain) (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
Chapter and verse as in Charles's translation (Charles prints 9.12 and 9.13 as one verse).
SBL abbreviation
Ascen. Isa.
Clavis
CANT 315 (not yet checked)
Text from
R. H. Charles, The Ascension of Isaiah, Translated from the Ethiopic Version (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1900), English translation pp. 1–82 (Printed translation in the public domain)
Critical editions
E. Norelli and P. Bettiolo et al., Ascensio Isaiae, CCSA 7–8 (Turnhout, 1995) (cited, not reproduced)