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Isaiah 40–55: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Scholars have traditionally isolated three distinct sections of what is known as the book of Isaiah, and in Isaiah 40–55, distinguished biblical scholar Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a new translation and critical commentary on the section usually referred to as Second or Deutero Isaiah. The second volume in a 3-volume commentary, it easily maintains the high standards of academic excellence...

judgment. This makes it difficult to accept Freedman’s argument that the same people are being addressed in 40:1, or even that chs. 34 and 40 belong together in the same book. Torrey himself noted the problem but simply remarked that, if the writer had been pressed to identify those addressed, he would have answered in the words of 66:10, “All those who love Zion” (Torrey 1928, 304). An alternative explanation, proposed in the Introduction, is that the compiler who attached 40–55 to 1–39 would have
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