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Isaiah: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this important addition to the Old Testament Library, renowned scholar Brevard S. Childs writes on the Old Testament’s most important theological book. He furnishes a fresh translation from the Hebrew and discusses questions of text, philology, historical background, and literary architecture, and then proceeds with a critically informed, theological interpretation of the text.

in the new things. The continuity between chapters 1–39 and 40ff. does not lie in the historical persona of Isaiah—in this Seitz is right—but rather in the word of God, faithfully proclaimed by Isaiah, which extends into the future and fulfills itself in the new things of which Isaiah had also spoken. The strongest evidence for the continuity of chapter 40 with First Isaiah is the ongoing description of the “new” in terms of an intertextual reference to the earlier corpus of his prophecy.
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