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Isaiah Old and New: Exegesis, Intertextuality, and Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reading the book of Isaiah in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III. Here he offers pastors, teachers, and students an accessible commentary to Isaiah, as well as a reasoned consideration of how Isaiah was heard and read in early Christianity. By reading “forward...

in Hebrews 5:9; and Isaiah 53:12 in Hebrews 9:28). First Peter is said to be on par with Romans in its frequency of use of Isaiah, drawing mainly from Isaiah 8, 11, 28, 40, and 53, uses we have already seen in other books; but interestingly, Peter uses Isaiah 40:6–8 rather than the John the Baptizer verse 40:3. The use of the stone texts, Isaiah 28:16 and 8:14, in 1 Peter has raised the question of a catena of quotes because this combination is also found in Romans 9:23. From James there seems to
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