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Isaiah 1–39: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Writing a commentary on the book of Isaiah in the middle of a paradigm shift in biblical studies, and in the study of the prophetic books in particular, is no easy task. The book of Isaiah has been the object of more scholarly interest over the past two or three decades than during the preceding century. At the same time, much of the received wisdom on the formation of the book has been called...

Writing a commentary on Isa 1–39 in the middle of a paradigm shift has not been easy. In Isaiah studies, as in the study of the Pentateuch, we observe over the last quarter of a century or so a growing dissatisfaction with the received wisdom on the formation of the book and a more insistent probing for a new paradigm. In biblical studies, major paradigms seem to have a life-span of about a century: Wellhausen’s Prolegomena, which set the agenda for the
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