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With this first of three volumes of Wildberger’s commentary on Isaiah 1–39, English-speaking readers have access to the most exhaustive and, in many respects, the most helpful analysis of a major prophetic voice from eighth century Israel. The pattern of other Old Testament volumes in the Continental Commentaries Series is followed here also. Each successive unit of the text is treated under six...

having been occasioned by the impression which the death of the king made upon him (see also M. Buber, Der Glaube der Propheten [1950] 181f.). There were no particularly important events on the international political scene in 739. Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727) was already past the initial difficulties of his reign, but had not yet made his appearance at the border of Israel. The prophecies from Isaiah’s early period of activity (chaps. 2, 3, 5) show that he was not particularly agitated because
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