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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...

the potential for individual and communal spiritual growth that it holds is inexhaustible. Chapter 58 is a classic example of prophetic tradition in the Bible. Here the fidelity of the Third Isaiah circle to the central themes of justice and proper worship developed by Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, and Jeremiah comes to clear expression. Once again those themes are shaped in relation to the specific issues of the early restoration period. The polemic
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