grounds alone.6 In short, the genre designation “call narrative” is all but required by the theory of a new prophetic voice, Second Isaiah. It has seemed reasonable to assume that as one left sections of the book depicting Isaiah of Jerusalem (e.g., chaps. 36–39), one would encounter at the opening of chaps. 40–55 a call narrative introducing the new prophet. This is the theory defended by a majority of modern scholars, especially in Anglo-Saxon circles.7 To be sure, there are elements in 40:1–8