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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1–27, Volume 1: Commentary on Isaiah 1–5 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological—to help the reader understand the meaning of Old and New Testament books. The new commentaries continue this tradition. New evidence is incorporated and...

The first chapter of Isaiah raises most of the introductory questions which a critical commentary on many parts of the book must face. These include: determination of the extent of the passage; the relationship between and the arrangement of the shortest units in the passage; the literary genre of each unit in isolation and in possible combination with other units; the authenticity (i.e. Isaianic authorship) of each unit; the identification of the historical background
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