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This collection of essays arises from the lively discussions in the Formation of the Book of Isaiah Seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature. The essays exhibit the diversity that has always been present in the Seminar. Each contributor has a unique perspective and thus extends the frontiers of research on the book of Isaiah. Yet, taken as a whole, the essays fall into two broad groups,...

block of text which opens and closes with narratives about the historical Isaiah (chs. 6–39) functions as ‘vision’ and ‘testimony’ from the past,28 to support the implied community wrestling with its own experience of judgment and hope. Whether Conrad’s apparent commitment to Stanley Fish and the hermeneutic which Conrad actually employs are completely consistent lies beyond the scope of these introductory remarks. What is important just now is for us to recognize in Conrad the presence of someone
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