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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1–27, Volume 2: Commentary on Isaiah 6–12 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This eagerly anticipated volume is the second installment in H. G. M. Williamson’s International Critical Commentary on first Isaiah. Williamson continues in this tradition, adding to his already published volume on Isaiah 1–5. Covering the next seven chapters of Isaiah, Williamson incorporates a range of secondary scholarly material with examination of all the key textual and critical issues...

as with many other names in ancient Hebrew (such as Immanuel!), the statement itself refers to God even while being used as the name of a human person; indeed, such theophoric names are the majority category in the Hebrew Bible. Luzzatto therefore took the first four words together as a nominal sentence but kept the others as two independent names;116 this is taken up by, for instance, JPS: ‘the Mighty God is planning grace; The Eternal Father, a peaceable ruler’. Alternatively, Holladay, Isaiah,
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