I agree they were unjust elohim that were condemned to die. That was what I was driving at, since someone had suggested that it was referring to earthly judges and not divine beings. I thought the NAB helped bring that concept out better.
I have no problem with a singular author for Isaiah. My point in discussing the word prints wasn't that there have to be two authors, but that the normal divisions made by those insisting on Deutero-Isaiah may be wrong in the chapters assigned to him. The word prints research done suggests that the Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon are all consistent with one author, rather than two regarding those chapters.
The Deuteronomists sought to join Elohim and Yahweh together into one. Since they preceeded Nephi, it is possible that some terminology from the Deuteronomists did make it into the Brass Plates. I could imagine Laban adding a copy of Deuteronomy from Jerusalem's temple in Josiah's day, which would be used by Nephi later on.
We cannot conclude that the Isaiah scrolls in the DSS, or any of the DSS, to have not been affected by the Diaspora and Ezra's redaction. After all, the DSS date back to the 2nd century BCE, centuries after the Deuteronomists, Priestly group, and Ezra made their changes.
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