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Isaiah is a masculine name of biblical origin. It comes from the Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ , Yəšaʿyāhū, Yeshayahu, meaning "Yahweh is salvation."The best known Isaiah is a prophet, in the Book of Isaiah.
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz (Hebrew: ישעיהו ליבוביץ ; 29 January 1903 – 18 August 1994) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath.He was a professor of biochemistry, organic chemistry, and neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a prolific writer on Jewish thought and western philosophy.
Isaiah (UK: / aɪ ˈ z aɪ. ə / or US: / aɪ ˈ z eɪ. ə /; [4] [5] Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ , Yəšaʿyāhū, "Yahweh is salvation"; [6] also known as Isaias [7] or Esaias [8] from Greek: Ἠσαΐας) was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.
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