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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...

he may be—a commentary on Isaiah 56–66 such as this one, focusing on the “final form” of the text—must exercise caution.9 Any attempt to read Trito-Isaiah simply as one of three self-contained and unified works by three distinct authors within the book of Isaiah is doomed to failure. Adopting such an approach, one would miss both the complexities within chapters 56–66 as well as the connections between these chapters and the rest of the book of Isaiah. It is more prudent to proceed along the lines
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