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The Struggle to Understand Isaiah as Christian Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

A key emphasis of Brevard Childs’ distinguished career has been to show not only that the canon of Scripture comprises both Old and New Testaments but also that the concept of “canon” includes the way the Christian church continues to wrestle in every age with the meaning of its sacred texts. In this new volume Childs uses the book of Isaiah as a case study of the church’ s endeavor throughout...

The United Bible Society’s Greek New Testament estimates that there are more than four hundred quotations, paraphrases, or allusions to the book of Isaiah in the New Testament. C. A. Evans (“From Gospel to Gospel,” Writing and Reading, vol. 2, p. 651) notes the remarkably even distribution (150 from chapters 1–39; 168 from chapters 40–55; and 89 from chapters 56–66, with only a few chapters missing). The New Testament’s usage of Isaiah varies greatly in terms
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