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In this volume, Walter Brueggemann writes on Isaiah 1–39, which many scholars believe had a single author, Isaiah, of the eighth century BCE, who wrote in the context of the Assyrian empire between 742 and 701.

The book of Isaiah is like a mighty oratorio whereby Israel sings its story of faith. Like any oratorio, this one includes interaction among many voices, some of which are in dissent. Like any oratorio, this work requires a rendering; and because each interpretive rendering (including this one) takes on a peculiar character, no one rendering may claim to be the “correct” one. Like any oratorio, moreover, this one conveys its primary themes with great authority, so that they persist through
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