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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...

Most scholars today would, nevertheless, agree that the bulk of 56–66 reflects the situation in the province of Judah (Yehud) during the first century of Persian rule, corresponding more or less to the reigns of Darius I (522–486), Xerxes I (486–465), and Artaxerxes I (465–424). If we may take this as a reasonable working hypothesis, it will be useful to provide a brief summary of events during this epoch. We may then be in a better position to determine against this background at least the contours
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