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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.

IV Eclogue. Although there are occasional hints in the primordial history of Genesis that the alienation from God also produced enmity between man and beast (3:15; 9:2ff.), this concept was never fully developed and only infrequently shimmers behind the text. Rather, the portrayal of universal peace in this chapter is set within an eschatological context (Hos. 2:20[18]) and is an expansion of the picture of the future harmony among the peoples who flow to the holy mountain (Isa. 11:9). The prophetic
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