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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.

history with his people. Chapter 6 is, above all, about a wholly different dimension of history: God’s time as it enters into Israel’s life according to a divine purpose. Chapters 2–4 had highlighted two different understandings of the administration of the world—the one controlled by human activity, the other according to God’s rule. Chapter 6 now offers a massive, new theological grounding for this sharp polarity. Isaiah “saw the Lord.” The description of what then follows shows clearly the use
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