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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...

of further hardening the people in their rebellion, not enlightening them. It is a message that will blind and deafen. This effect is clearly not permanent, in view of what follows in this book, but it will last until judgment falls even on Jerusalem and Judah. The prophet cries out like the Psalmist, “How long, O Lord?” (cf. Pss 13:2; 74:10; 79:5; 80:4; 89:46; 90:13).43 Notice that God does not reply with the sonorous ʿolam w-ʿôlam (“forever and ever”). No, the judgment is temporal and temporary,
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