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Isaiah 56–66: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The world’s leading authority on the prophet Isaiah brings his distinguished 3-volume commentary on the book of Isaiah to a conclusion with this new translation and critical discussion of the final eleven chapters. The concluding section of the book of Isaiah, sometimes referred to as Third or Trito Isaiah, had a profound impact on the Christian movement in its formative phase, including such...

(4:5; 6:1–5; 24:23; 33:20–22; 52:7) and suggests that in 66:18 the nations are coming to witness the proclamation of YHVH’s kingship and his ascent to the throne as king of the universe (Volz 1932, 298). The sign (“signs” in the Great Isaiah Scroll and LXX, perhaps with the meaning “miracles”) is the signal for convergence on Jerusalem. Here, too, the writer is dependent on an Isaian topos, though using a different term (ʾôt rather than nēs): Observe: I raise my hand to the nations, I lift up a signal
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