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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...

development. “They are instead characterized by repetition, juxtaposition, and richly imagaic language.”11 The unifying factor is that the oracle involves the utterances of a particular voice, in this case God’s or Isaiah speaking for God. An “I” is speaking in direct address to some particular “you,” and usually the “you” is plural, not singular. The thing about lyric poetry, since it does not in the main seek to persuade by means of argumentation, is that it “works to convey its message and convince
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