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The latter half of the sixth century B.C.E. found the Jewish community fragmented and under great strife after having been conquered by the Babylonian armies. As a response to a growing despair over life in servitude and exile, Isaiah 40 - 66 was written. Paul Hanson examines the writings of Second Isaiah. What he discovers is a poetic argument for a loving and attentive God and the rightful...

Chapter 55 brings the message of Second Isaiah to a fitting conclusion. Several of the main themes of the prophet’s message are woven into a composition that bursts with excitement as suggested already on a grammatical level by the heaping up of interjections and imperatives. First an unusual invitation is extended. The list of those to be included is not limited to people of social standing, not even to people of sufficient means to come properly attired. The
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