Brevard Childs writes on one of the Old Testament's most important theological book. He furnishes a fresh translation from the Hebrew and discusses questions of text, philology, historical background, and literary architecture, and then proceeds with a critically informed, theological interpretation of the text.
The book of Isaiah depicts for its readers what happens when Isaiah volunteers to become Yahweh s gofer when he acts and speaks on Yahweh s behalf with Yahweh s authority. In this careful and insightful commentary on Isaiah, Goldingay unfolds the voices and messages of those prophetic actions and experiences.
While doing this he points out that three attributes of Yahweh come into distinctive focus in Isaiah: Yahweh s majesty and authority, Yahweh s passion in anger and compassion, and Yahweh s insight and capacity to formulate a plan and put it into effect.
Goldingay also examines the way Isaiah thinks about the people of God and the relationship between the vision of who they could be, the reality of who they were, the calamity of that contrast, and ultimately the promise Yahweh offers to them.
The book of Isaiah is perhaps the most compelling of all Old Testament prophecy. None of the other prophetic witnesses rival Isaiah's brilliance of style and metaphor, powerful imagery and clarity of vision of the messianic hope.
Unlike Isaiah commentators who divide the book between chapters 1-39 and 40-66, Motyer instead identifies three messianic portraits: the King (Isaiah 1-37), the Servant (Isaiah 38-55), and the Anointed Conqueror (Isaiah 56-66).
This volume provides Motyer's lucid exposition on these three portraits, examining Isaiah with insightful and probing passage-by-passage commentary.
This unique commentary allows the interpretation of Isaiah 1-39 to be guided by the final form of the book. It focuses on the theological aspect of the book of Isaiah, giving special attention to the role of literary context.
Seitz explores structural and organizational concerns as clues to the editorial intention of the final form of the material, which he argues is both intelligible and an intended result of the efforts of those who gave shape to the present form of the book.
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