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To See and Not Perceive: Isaiah 6.9–10 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In his famous vision of the enthroned and exalted Lord, Isaiah is told to harden the hearts of his people, “lest they repent” (Isaiah 6:9–10). According to Mark's Gospel, which cites this text, Jesus speaks in parables for the same reason. Interpreters of all generations have, not unnaturally, found the text difficult and disturbing. This study is concerned with the fascinating variety of early...

that is particularly suitable for a comparative study, for it has given various believing communities theological explanations of major significance in times of disaster, turmoil, rejection, and self-doubt. This book is interested in a particular text and the hermeneutic to which it gives expression. But it is not intended to be a study of the motif of obduracy,17 though Isa. 6:9–10 is certainly a major witness to that tradition. The prophetic motif of obduracy is but a manifestation of a more fundamental
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