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The Book of Isaiah and God’s Kingdom: A Thematic—Theological Approach is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Isaiah has nourished the church throughout the centuries. However, its massive size can be intimidating; its historical setting can seem distant, opaque, varied; its organization and composition can seem disjointed and fragmented; its abundance of terse, poetic language can make its message seem veiled—and where are those explicit prophecies about Christ? These are typical experiences...

critical consensus, is that the book of Isaiah contains some prophecies from the eighth-century prophet, along with writings from other authors from the later pre-exilic, exilic and post-exilic eras. While the latter view has been popularized into a schema of three books (1–39; 40–55; 56–66), three eras (pre-exilic, exilic, post-exilic) and three prophetic figures (First Isaiah, Deutero-Isaiah, Third Isaiah), theories are far more complex, with scholars arguing for many hands at work in every section
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