Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary

Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary

Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary

Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary

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Overview

No other prophetic book rivals Isaiah's clear message, powerful imagery, and confident hope in God's future deliverance. The prophet's vision of God's glory and holiness in chapter 6 permeates the whole book, and he never tires of correcting misplaced faith in power or false gods.

In this thorough and accessible Tyndale commentary, Paul Wegner explores the background, structure, and themes of Isaiah. While many scholars divide the book with a gap of about 150 years between chapters 39 and 40, Wegner highlights the unified message of the book, including its three introductions (Is 1:1; 2:1; 13:1) paired with its three refrains (Is 48:22; 57:21; 66:24). Each part illuminates God's glorious plan for his people.

The Tyndale Commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. The Introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its authorship, date, original setting, and purpose. Following a structural Analysis, the Commentary takes the book section by section, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation. Additional Notes provide fuller discussion of particular difficulties.

In the new Old Testament volumes, the commentary on each section of the text is structured under three headings: Context, Comment, and Meaning. The goal is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780830842681
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 07/06/2021
Series: Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries , #20
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Paul D. Wegner is professor of Old Testament at Phoenix Seminary in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of The Journey from Texts to Translations: The Origin and Development of the Bible.


David Firth is Old Testament tutor and B.A. course leader at Cliff College, Derbyshire. He is the author of Responses to Violence in Complaint Psalms of the Individual (forthcoming).


Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also visiting professor of Old Testament at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and adjunct of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He lectures regularly at Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary. Longman is the author or coauthor of over twenty books, including How to Read Genesis, How to Read the Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament Essentials and coeditor of A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. He and Dan Allender have coauthored Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies, The Intimate Mystery and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.

Table of Contents

General preface vii

Author's preface ix

Abbreviations xi

Select bibliography xv

Glossary xxiii

Introduction 1

1 Nature of the book of Isaiah 1

2 Origin, date and characters 2

3 Historical background and setting 3

4 Theology and purpose 10

5 Canonical status 12

6 Literary issues 13

7 Structure 15

8 Style 31

9 Unity/authorship 32

10 Textual issues 44

Analysis 45

Commentary 55

Additional notes

Babylonia 142

Fall of Satan 148

Philistia 152

Zion theology 154

Moab 155

Aram (Damascus) 160

Cush 164

Egypt 167

Flax 170

Edom (lit. 'Dumah') 179

Arabia 181

Jerusalem 183

Tyre 191

Threshing-sledge 315

Cyrus II (the Great) (c.559-530 BC) 343

Excurses

Baal worship 67

Young maiden ('almâ) and virgin (betûlâ) 108

The Isaianic Narratives in their literary and historical setting 271

The Servant Songs 319

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