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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...

he or she belongs, and the requirements of its agenda to which he or she subscribes. The same text can therefore generate conflicting interpretations which can in their turn spill over into social conflict. The history of Christianity provides numerous examples of these conflicts of interpretation, the effects of which have not always been confined to polite debate. Think, for example, of the Protestant Reformation and the conflicting interpretations of Rom 1:17, itself one of several possible interpretations
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