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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...

He established them forever and ever; he fixed their bounds, which cannot be passed. Praise the LORD from the earth, you sea monsters and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling his command! Once again the reality of the heavenly hosts is not denied. Even the reality of the unruly chaos waters (cf. tĕhôm of Gen. 1:2 and Tiamat of Babylonian mythology) is not denied. But their sting is taken away, their bounds have been set, as they are drawn into the purposes of the one
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