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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...

It also seems rather too literalistic to assume that only supernatural beings can level hills and raise valleys. The case for a divine council scenario in dependence on Isa 6 is taken further by Melugin (1976, 82–84), Seitz (1990, 229–47), and Williamson (1994, 37–38). Melugin argues from the plural imperatives in 40:1–2, but it is difficult to see why injunctions in the plural must be addressed to divine beings rather than to a plurality of prophets. In fact, a prophetic plurality is referred to
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