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Opening the Sealed Book: Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of all the texts in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, perhaps no book has a more colorful history of interpretation than Isaiah. A comprehensive history of this interpretation between the prophet Malachi and the first days of Christianity, Joseph Blenkinsopp’s Opening the Sealed Book traces three different prophetic traditions in Isaiah—the “man of God,” the critic of social structures, and...

The main focus of the following chapters is the interpretation of texts, and the main point I want to make is the powerful impact that the interpretation of biblical texts can have on social realities. At a time and in a culture in which biblical texts can be cited in support of specific social and political agendas, not always with reassuring results, and when books featuring apocalyptic scenarios based on the Bible sell in the millions, this should not require much emphasis. The specific
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