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While noting that the book of Second Isaiah, or Deutero-Isaiah, is free of many of the complications present in First Isaiah, Whybray suggests that the redactional history of Second Isaiah may be even more complex than any other prophetical book of the Old Testament. He considers these chapters to be some of the most important and influential chapters in the entire Bible. Isaiah 40–55 played a...

stripping away layers of subsequent interpretation and reinterpretation. That prophet, as will be seen, was not the prophet Isaiah who lived and prophesied during the eighth century B.C., but a prophet whose name is unknown to us (hence the title ‘Deutero-Isaiah’) who lived and prophesied in Babylon during the sixth century B.C. The view expressed in the preceding paragraphs about the unity of the authorship of chapters 40–55 does not, of course, exclude the possibility that the processes whereby
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