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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.

has been construed with elements of promise to soften the announced destruction. The following reasons have been offered in support of this interpretation: a. The initial sign of the promise was rejected and replaced by a judgment oracle signalled by the adverb lākēn (“therefore”). b. The final section of v. 16, “before [whose kings] you now cower” cannot originally be a modifier of the noun hā’adāmāh (“cultivated soil”), which is not a political designation. The clause was later added to turn
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