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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...

the Book of the Twelve, to the extent of suggesting to us that the editors of the prophetic material allowed themselves considerable fluidity and license in attributing prophetic sayings to specific authors, or even that the book of Isaiah served as a kind of deposit for miscellaneous prophecies dealing with the destiny of Jerusalem and Judah. The prose narratives in chs. 7, 20, and 36–39 further complicate the issue, since they present a prophetic figure, a “man of God,” significantly different
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