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The last chapters of the book of Isaiah offer a vision of new hope at the dawn of the postexilic period. The dense and complex imagery of light, espousal, and victory gives expression to the joyful reality of a return to Jerusalem and to the as-yet-unrealized dreams of rebuilding and repopulating what has been laid to waste. Trito-Isaiah’s proclamation of God’s salvation or victory appears both...

The voice that we hear coming from the text suddenly changes at the beginning of chapter 61. In Isaiah 61:1–3, it is no longer the voice of Yhwh speaking through the prophet, addressing Zion. The first-person-singular voice is not “I, Yhwh,” which we saw at the end of chapter 60. Rather, it is the individual prophetic voice speaking of itself as anointed and commissioned by Yhwh to proclaim a message to the mourners in Zion. The autobiographical
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