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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 grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever. (Isa. 40:8) Little wonder that the lesson concerning the transiency of all flesh strikes dread in the human heart as does nothing else. Human conquerors build their empires under the illusion of the durability of human fortifications and fortunes. The image of an awesome wind that reduces all to nothingness attacks the very heart of human schemes. Yet there is one group for whom that image contains the possibility of
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