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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...

describe the actual reception of a message (see 2:1*: “The word which Isaiah saw”; see also 1 Sam. 3:1*; Isa. 29:10*; Mic. 3:6*). Consequently, the title חזון (vision) corresponds to Isaiah’s understanding of himself, and it is appropriate that the prophet is not called a נביא (prophet) in the superscription and that his activity is not described by using some form of the root נבא (to prophesy) (cf. how different it is in Hab. 1:1*; Hag. 1:1* and often elsewhere; Zech. 1:1*). Only in the narrative
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