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The New Israel: A Commentary on the Book of Isaiah 56–66 is unavailable, but you can change that!

“ ‘Isaiah’ provides us with a picture,” writes George A.F. Knight, “a pattern of revelation, hewn out of the facts of history.” In this book, which serves as a sequel to the author’s Servant Theology (the International Theological Commentary on Isaiah 40-55, with appropriate attention to significant critical issues. Emphasizing Israel as “a light to the nations,” Knight is concerned throughout...

declare that they had been ‘saved’; whereas, TI declares, no person is saved till he loves his neighbour even as God has loved him. This group sought to show their joy in the LORD by meticulous observance of public worship—‘they delight to know my ways’. By the year 536, it would seem, an altar of some kind had been re-erected where the old altar had stood; around it this pious group would assemble for the public worship of God. It was to this group, then, sure of their own probity, that TI was to
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