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First Isaiah: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The eighth-century BCE Isaiah of Jerusalem, the so-called First Isaiah, is one of the most important theological voices in the Bible. J. J. M. Roberts takes a classical historical-critical approach to his interpretation of this material, making good use of his broad comparative knowledge of ancient Near Eastern historical and religious sources. In light of Isaiah’s very long prophetic ministry of...

1: 1/ The vision ofa Isaiah, son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah,b Jotham, and Hezekiah,c kings of Judah. By analogy to the superscriptions at the beginning of a number of other prophetic books (Jer 1:1–3; Hos 1:1; Joel 1:1; Amos 1:1; Obad 1:1; Mic 1:1; Nah 1:1; Hab 1:1; Zeph 1:1), the superscription in Isa 1:1 is probably intended as a heading for the whole book, or at least as much of the book as existed at the time the superscription
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