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Deutero-Isaiah: A Commentary on Isaiah 40–55 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Baltzer’s magnificent commentary places chapters 40-55 of Isaiah in the new context after the Exile. The experience of catastrophe, the need to grapple with new problems and the hope for a peaceful future are linked in Deutero-Isaiah’s composition. Along with masterful presentation of the book’s themes, Baltzer also develops a creative hypothesis about the work’s genre, identifying it as a...

judgment.53 That would correspond to Isa 66:15–17*, 18–19*, for example (cf. Zech 14:3*). War or peace, a coming for doom or for salvation, is the question according to v. 5* too. It is only the context in vv. 9–11* that makes clear that this has to do with Yahweh’s return to Zion/Jerusalem together with his people. Here the text is close to the Priestly writing’s account of the wanderings through the desert (cf. Exod 16:7*, 10*; Num 14:10*; 16:19*; 17:7* <16:42*>; 20:6*).
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