How did we get to the point in our culture where Isaiah (a foundational Scripture connecting the Torah and the New Testament), is not thematically understood?  What is meant by the word “thematically” is that while Christians generally know bits or pieces of Isaiah, they typically cannot state the overall theme.  It as if someone had read Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, but then could not say that they went rafting down the Mississippi river.  This lack of understanding regarding Isaiah is shocking.  If you have read Isaiah, you can self-test yourself by asking yourself what the entire scroll is about, or ask yourself what Isaiah was following.  For example, why is Isaiah 53 where it is?  What comes after it?  What comes before it?  

It is only a starting point, but one direct impact of this website is to help readers know where the chiastic or fold-over structures in the text of Isaiah start and stop. The chapter numbering added in the middle ages does not typically align with those structures. Because of that, it is exceedingly difficult to read and study Isaiah. To see charts on these structures, click on the button below, and then on that page, click the links to any of the several charts provided.