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Until the Spirit Comes: The Spirit of God in the Book of Isaiah is unavailable, but you can change that!

The surge of the Pentecostal movement in this century has brought new relevance to the study of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament. Surprisingly, however, this theme has been largely neglected by Pentecostal scholars. Ma seeks to fill this gap by providing an in-depth study of the Spirit of God in the Isaianic traditions. He argues that the Old Testament concept of the Spirit of God has more...

Yahweh varies. The Old Testament is not ready to declare that the spirit is Yahweh or vice versa; rather, its affinity to God is often expressed in a parallel construct with other anthropomorphic expressions such as mouth (Isa. 34:16) or hand (Exod. 15:6).41 This expresses part of God himself with a distinct function. At the same time, there are usages more detached from God such as the spirit of judgment and burning (Isa. 4:4) which almost sounds like ‘a spirit of …’ (cf. 1 Kgs 22:22–23). Also a
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