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Isaiah is one of the most difficult and yet rewarding of the major prophets. Barton looks at First Isaiah (chapters 1–39) as a composite work by many authors, but also as a work to be read through in a linear fashion like a literary work. These chapters are a complex assembly built of distinctive component parts, and Barton focuses on the words of Isaiah, son of Amoz as the core of this and the...

talks of Yahweh’s combat with the powers of evil in heaven, in a way perhaps even closer to apocalyptic literature than is the ‘Isaiah Apocalypse’ (see above). Chapter 34, on the other hand, is highly reminiscent of Isaiah 40–55—so much so that some think it is by Deutero-Isaiah, maybe even separated artificially from Isaiah 40 when 36–39 were inserted into the book. Arguments that bring 24–27 down into the post-exilic age have the same effect on 34, and the resemblance to Deutero-Isaiah makes it
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