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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...

2. the ethical behaviour of people in Judah and Jerusalem—mainly but not exclusively the ruling classes; 3. what the future held for the nation, and whether this depended on possible changes in either ethical behaviour or political decisions. There are important intractable disagreements among scholars about the third of these concerns, and especially about how far Isaiah predicted that God would one day shower untold blessings on the people—and if so, whether or not this would depend to any degree
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