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The Lord is Savior: Faith in National Crisis: A Commentary on the Book of Isaiah 1–39 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary presents an Indonesian theologian’s contemporary interpretation of Isaiah 1-39. According to S. H. Widyapranawa, in Isaiah we see the dynamics of faith in a turbulent world and we hear the prophetic admonition to uphold faith in the Lord and to oppose secularism, false prophecies, and sinful cultic practices. Indeed, this teaching from the eighth century B.C. is of paramount...

These last chapters of First Isaiah serve as an epilogue, but simultaneously form a link to Second Isaiah (Isa. 40–55). This is especially so with the last chapter (ch. 39). Most interpreters share the opinion that these chapters originally stood apart, being compiled after Isaiah’s day. They were then added to chs. 1–35 before the book continues with ch. 40. The following reasons are worth considering (see O. Kaiser, Isaiah 1–39, 367–68). 1. These chapters contain historical notes concerning Isaiah’s
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