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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 40–55 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...

1 In this volume we do not rehearse the arguments for reckoning that Isaiah 40–66 comes from a different author or authors from those of Isaiah 1–39.2 Within the book called Isaiah, chapters 40–55 then form a discrete unit. Both the adverbial phrase and the verbal clause in that statement need emphasis. Chapters 40–55 are an integral part of the book. †B. Duhm (2nd ed., p. vii) believed that chapters 40–66 were originally attached
Volume 1, Pages 1–2