Isaiah 7:14 - a virgin shall conceive

[Steven Avery]

Isaiah 7:14 (AV)
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,
and shall call his name Immanuel.

When I saw the Sovereign Grace Blog, I realized that PBF needed a page on this topic.

 

[Steven Avery]

Sovereign Grace Blog
Rashi’s interesting comments on Isaiah 7:14
https://sovereigngraceblog.medium.com/rashis-interesting-comments-on-isaiah-7-14-f75dfa6fd46

Sid Roth, Branham, Cain, and Reed
Apostolic Friends Forum
http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com/showthread.php?p=1601302#post1601302

And I have always liked this article, even from an rcc:

The Problem of Is. 7:14
William Most-
https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/isaiah/fr-william-most--the-problem-of-is-7-14

2) We saw that the Targum Jonathan clearly makes Isaiah 9:5-6 messianic. Then, by the fact that 7:14 speaks of the same child -- since both texts are part of the Book of Immanuel -- 7:14 must also be messianic. We saw that the Jews once, e.g., Hillel, did consider 7:14 messianic, but gave it up to deter Christians from using 7:14 as messianic. So the fact that the targum does not mark 7:14 as such is readily explained by the distortion later introduced into the targums by the Jews who wanted to keep Christians from using them -- a fact admitted by several major modern Jewish scholars

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Daniel Gruber is also helpful:

God, the Rabbis and the Virgin Birth
https://www.amazon.com/Rabbis-Virgin-Birth-Daniel-Gruber/dp/1514209756/

purchase at ElijahNet
http://www.elijahnet.net/store/index-31914.php

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Rabbi Akiba's Messiah: The Origins of Rabbinic Authority

Amazon.com

is also an excellent book.

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[Steven Avery]

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Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
and bear a son,
and shall call his name Immanuel.

Doug Kutilek , you have a far too simplistic and wooden view of how articles translate between languages.

Helsinki Perspectives on the Translation Technique of the Septuagint ... (2001)
Relative Clauses in the Greek Leviticus
Cornelis G. den Hertog
https://books.google.com/books?id=ffGWtjrq2ZMC&pg=PA90
42 This would be an instance of the use of the definite article in Hebrew where English and other modem European languages prefer the indefinite article:
“Peculiar to Hebrew is the employment of the article to denote a single person or thing (primarily one which is as yet unknown, and therefore not capable of being defined) as being present to the mind under given circumstances",
Gesenius, Kautzsch and Cowley, Grammar, 407. W. Schneider, Grammatik des biblischen Hebraisch (2nd ed.; Munchen, 1976), 242 describes this use of the definite article in Hebrew as “cataphoric”.

And you will find that Gesenius specifically references Isaiah 7:14.

Doug, have you ever read:
"The King James Version of the English Bible: An Account of the Development and Sources of the English Bible of 1611 With Special Reference to the Hebrew Tradition" (1941) by David Daiches
and
"Hebrew in the Church: The Foundations of Jewish-Christian Dialogue" (1984) by Pinchas Lapide ?

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Questioning Virginity
Forward (2004)
http://forward.com/articles/5154/questioning-virginity/

Isaiah 7:14 - Debunking Jewish Objections to the Virgin Birth
Tim Kelley

https://www.amiyisrael.org/articles/VirginBirth/DebunkingOppositionToVirginBirth-PP.pdf