Isaiah 1-5 (ICC): A Critical and Exegetical Commentary

by H.G.M. Williamson, Christopher M. Tuckett (Editor), Stuart Weeks (Editor), Jacqueline Vayntrub (Editor)

Overview

Hugh Williamson's Isaiah 1-5 is the first of three volumes in a important new commentary on Isiah 1-27. For over one hundred years International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the meaning of the books of the Old and New Testaments. The new commentaries continue this tradition. All new evidence now available is incorporated and new methods of study are applied. The authors are of the highest international standing. No attempt has been made to secure a uniform theological or critical approach to the biblical text: contributors have been invited for their scholarly distinction, not for their adherence to any one school of thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567044518
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/16/2006
Series:	International Critical Commentary
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.12(d)

About the Author

H.G.M. Williamson is Regius Professor Emeritus of Hebrew, University of Oxford, UK.

Christopher Tuckett is Professor in New Testament in the University of Oxford.

Dr Stuart Weeks MA (Oxon.) MPhil DPhil, Senior Lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew, Durham University, UK. He is the author of Early Israelite Wisdom (OUP, 1994) and Instructions & Imagery in Proverbs 1-9 (OUP, 2007). He is writing the ICC volume on Ecclesiastes for T&T Clark.

Jacqueline Vayntrub is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University, USA

Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations Introduction Commentary [Chronology] Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

ICC has been the supreme English language Bible commentary series throughout the twentieth century, and the recent additions to it...maintain its reputation as the commentary of choice, the first volume to be pulled from the shelf when a really tricky issue of exegesis or exposition is involved or an authoritative survey of historical and recent scholarly interpretation is sought on any particular passage.” —Professor James Dunn, University of Durham, UK

“Williamson has written a masterly commentary on Isa 1–5, for which students of Isaiah will be forever grateful.” —Review of Biblical Literature

“Williamson's commentary is a magisterial reference work. The overall redaction-critical approach to the Book of Isaiah as a whole and in its parts provides an interpretative framework in which thousands of detailed comments are offered. Notable is the full account that is taken of the linguistic information now available from the Dead Sea Scrolls for the transmission of the text of Isaiah. The exegesis engages principally with western scholarship of the last several generations but there are also multiple references to earlier Jewish and Christian engagements with the book. For serious readers of Isaiah this commentary is indispensable.” —George Brooke, Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, University of Manchester, UK

From the Publisher