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Second Isaiah: Introduction, Translation, and Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

Isaiah, the largest and most widely quoted prophetic book in the Bible, is unmatched in eloquence and grandeur. The prophetic figure behind this book looms large in Israel’s history because he speaks to perennial themes that echo throughout Israel’s history. John L. McKenzie, S.J. here translates and comments on the portion of the book of Isaiah known as Second Isaiah (chapters 34–35 and 40–66). ...

The period within which the literature of Isa 40–66 was composed begins with the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 587 B.C. In this defeat the city was destroyed and the kingdom of Judah was reduced to a Babylonian province. Some thousands of the inhabitants were removed to Babylonia, to be added to the exiled group which had been taken there in 597 B.C. It is impossible to get accurate figures for the population removed to Babylon or for the proportion
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