Book of Isaiah

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The Book of Isaiah (Hebrew: the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, preceding Ezekiel, Jeremiah and the Book of ) is the Twelve. (The order of the subsequent books differs somewhat in Christian Old Testament). The first 39 chapters prophesy doom for a sinful Judah and for all the nations of the world that oppose God, while the last 27 prophesy the restoration of the nation of Israel and a new creation in God's glorious future kingdom;[1] this section includes the Songs of the Suffering Servant, four separate passages referring to the nation of Israel, interpreted by Christians as prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ. Tradition ascribes authorship of the book to Isaiah son of Amoz, but for over a hundred years scholars have seen it as a compilation of writings from three different periods. The first, termed Proto-Isaiah (chapters 139), contains the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet with 7thcentury BCE expansions; the second, Deutero-Isaiah (chapters 4055), is the work of a 6th-century BCE author writing near the end of the Babylonian captivity; and the third, the poetic Trito-Isaiah (chapters 5666), was composed in Jerusalem shortly after the return from exile, probably by multiple authors.[1][2][3][4]:pp. 558562

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Contents
1 Texts and manuscripts 2 Composition 3 Proto-Isaiah (Isaiah 139) 3.1 Structure 3.2 Authorship and historical background 3.3 Content and structure 4 Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 4055) 4.1 Authorship and historical background 4.2 Content and structure 4.3 Themes 4.3.1 The Servant of Yahweh 4.3.2 Monotheism 4.3.3 A new Exodus 5 Trito-Isaiah (Isaiah 5666) 5.1 Authorship and historical background 5.2 Content and structure 6 Influence on Christianity 7 Jehovah's Witnesses adoption of Isaiah 43:1012 8 References 9 Bibliography 9.1 Commentaries on Isaiah 9.1.1 General commentaries 9.1.2 Proto-Isaiah (Isaiah 139) 9.1.3 Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 4055) 9.1.4 Trito-Isaiah (Isaiah 5666) 9.2 General works 10 External links 10.1 Translations 10.2 Websites

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Texts and manuscripts

The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book.[5]:pp. 2223 (Isaiah was the most popular prophet among the Dead Sea collection: 21 copies of the scroll were found in Qumran.)

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Composition
Jewish and Christian tradition held that the entire book is by the 8th century BCE prophet Isaiah, but scholars have concluded since the late 19th century that it cannot be by a single author.[6]:p.1[7] The observations which have led to this are as follows:[8] Prophecies Passages of Isaiah 4066 refer to events that did not occur in Isaiah's own lifetime, such as the rise of Babylon as the world power, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the rise of Cyrus the Great, which is taken as evidence of later composition.[9] R. N. Whybray uses these passages to pinpoint the period of Deutero-Isaiah's activity to 550539 BCE).[10] Anonymity Isaiahs name suddenly stops being used after chapter 39. Style There is a sudden change in style and theology after chapter 40;[11] numerous key words and phrases found in one section are not found in the other.[12] Historical Situation The historical situation goes through three stages: in chapters 139 the prophet speaks of a judgment which will befall the wicked Israelites; in chapters 4055 the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple (587 BCE) is treated as an accomplished fact and the fall of Babylon as an imminent threat; and in chapters 5666 the fall of Babylon is already in the past.[12] Scholars therefore divide the book into three parts:[13] Chapters 1 to 39 (First Isaiah, Proto-Isaiah or Original Isaiah): the work of the original prophet Isaiah, who worked in Jerusalem between 740 and 687 BCE.[14] Chapters 40 to 55 (Second Isaiah or Deutero-Isaiah): by an anonymous author who lived in Babylon near the end of the Babylonian
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captivity.[13]:418 Chapters 56 to 66 (Third Isaiah or Trito-Isaiah): the work of anonymous disciples committed to continuing Isaiah's work in the years immediately after the return from Babylon.[13]:444 This section includes visions of new heavens and new earth.[14] (Other scholars suggest that chapters 5566 were written by Deutero-Isaiah after the fall of Babylon.)[4]:p. 561 This implied sequence of pre-exilic, exilic and post-exilic material is somewhat misleading, as significant editing has clearly taken place in all three parts.[15]:p.183 There is some uncertainty as to how Deutero-Isaiah and Trito-Isaiah came to be attached to the original Isaiah: the two competing theories are either that Deutero-Isaiah was written as a continuation of Proto-Isaiah, or that it was written separately and became attached to the famous Isaiah later.[16]

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Proto-Isaiah (Isaiah 139)

Structure
The following is from Margaret Barker's commentary on Isaiah in Eerdman's Commentary on the Bible[17]

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Ch.1: various poems, possibly compiled as an introduction to the final form of the book Ch. 212: oracles about Judah and Jerusalem reflecting the late 8th century expansion of Assyria into the Kingdom of Judah Ch. 1323: oracles against the nations Ch. 2427: the "Isaiah apocalypse" Ch. 2831: more oracles about the 8th century crisis Ch. 3233: oracles about kingship Ch. 34: oracles against Edom (a kingdom bordering Judah to the south) Ch. 35: oracle of salvation for Israel Ch. 3639: stories about Isaiah during the Assyrian crisis

Authorship and historical background

Isaiah's first significant acts as a prophet occurred when Judah, under king Ahaz, faced invasion from Israel and Aram Damascus (Syria) after refusing to join them in a revolt against Assyria, the dominant imperial power of the age. Ahaz, against Isaiah's advice to seek the protection of God, invited the Assyrians to protect him, turning Judah into an Assyrian vassal. Israel (the northern kingdom) was consequently destroyed by the Assyrians. On the death of Ahaz, c.715 BCE, his son Hezekiah followed a policy which Isaiah saw as dangerous, waging war on the Philistine cities and on Edom even though territory under direct Assyrian control (i.e., the former kingdom of Israel) now came to within a few miles of Jerusalem. Isaiah's warning that Judah would meet the same fate as Israel was ignored. Eventually Hezekiah revolted against Assyria, and as Isaiah had predicted the country was ravaged by Assyrian armies. Hezekiah then took Isaiah's advice and threw himself on the protection of God, and Jerusalem was saved.[15]:pp. 100107

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Content and structure

Proto-Isaiah is divided between verse and prose passages: a currently popular theory is that the verse passages represent the prophecies of the original Isaiah, while the prose sections are "sermons" on his texts composed at the court of Josiah, at the end of the 7th century BCE.[5]:p.4 Chapters 7, 21, and 3639 appear also in 2nd Kings: it is not known whether the author of Isaiah borrowed them from Kings, or viceversa.[5]:p.3 Chapters 2427, known as the "Isaiah Apocalypse",[18][19] are usually thought to be the work of an author who lived long after Isaiah.[5]:p.4 Chapters 15 and 2829 prophesy judgment against Judah. Judah thinks itself safe because of its covenant relationship with God. However, God tells Judah (through Isaiah) that the covenant cannot protect them when they have broken it by the worship of other gods and by acts of injustice and cruelty, which oppose God's law. Chapter 6 describes Isaiah's call to be a prophet of God. The throne scene at the opening of chapter 6 is noteworthy for its depiction of an idealised temple with singing seraphs. Chapters 723 contain prophecies against Judah's enemies. Chapters 2434, while too complex to characterize easily, are primarily concerned with prophecies of a "Messiah", a person anointed or given power by God, and of the Messiah's kingdom, where justice and righteousness will reign. Chapters 3639 concern Hezekiah's triumph over the Assyrians and his faith in God. It ends with a visit to Hezekiah by envoys from a rebel prince of Babylon, and Isaiah's words prophesying the Babylonian exile.

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Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 4055)

Authorship and historical background
Two crises occurred between Proto-Isaiah and Deutero-Isaiah. The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c.586 BCE. Deutero-Isaiah delivered his prophesies to this group, which was actually quite small the majority of the population stayed in Judah. By the middle of the 6th century the king of Babylon was Nabonidus. He alienated the powerful priests of Marduk, the official god of Babylon, by taking up the worship of Sin, the god of Harran (a city in northern Mesopotamia), absenting himself for long periods from the city and neglecting crucial ceremonies. He also neglected the rise of powerful new enemies, first the Medes, then the Persians under Cyrus the Great. In 550 BCE Cyrus defeated the Medes, and had allied himself with the priests of Marduk, and the fall of Babylon to the Persians became a real possibility. These events date Deutero-Isaiah's earlier prophecies. Chapters 4955 probably come from a slightly later period, after Babylon had fallen to Cyrus and the return to Jerusalem became a real possibility.[20]:p.524

Content and structure

See also: Isaiah 53 Deutero-Isaiah prophesies the deliverance of Israel from the hands of the Babylonians and their restoration in the land promised to them by God. It affirms that the Jews are indeed the chosen people of God and Yahweh is both their national god and the God of the universe (46:9). Cyrus is named as the messiah who will overthrow Babylon and allow the
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return of Israel (chapter 45:1). The remaining chapters are a vision of the future glory of Zion. A "suffering servant" is referred to (esp. ch. 53). Christians have traditionally interpreted it as a prophecy of Jesus as the Christ (i.e., Messiah).[21] Chapters 4055 fall into two parts, with 4048 dealing with the rise of Cyrus, while 4955 are focused on Zion as the wife whom God has renounced and then taken back. The Cyrus chapters are similar in style and theme to the Cyrus cylinder, and it is possible that Deutero-Isaiah was influenced by the propaganda of Cyrus and his supporters, who claimed that the god Marduk had chosen Cyrus to liberate Babylon.[20]:p.524

Themes
The Servant of Yahweh Main article: Servant songs Second Isaiah contains four passages of songs of the servant of Yahweh. 1) 1st / Isa 42:14 The servant is the chosen one, given the Spirit to establish justice through the world 2) 2nd / Isa 49:16 The servant speaks to the entire world and identifies himself as one called by God before birth 3) 3rd / Isa 50:411 The servant declares his confidence in divine help even in the face of physical persecution 4) 4th / Isa 52:1353:12 The suffering of the servant; how despite his innocence the servant was oppressed like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, but his suffering is surrogate like a scapegoat. The "servant of Yahweh" can be interpreted as any of three plausible characters: the first is an individual chosen by God, like Moses, Hezekiah, Josiah, Cyrus, etc., who is identified as a messianic figure of the future. The second is Israel itself as a personified nation, as shown in Isaiah 49:3 and the third is the remnant of the First Isaiah, the restored Israel from the exile (Isa 46:3).[22] Monotheism Isaiah 44:6 contains the first clear statement of monotheism in the Hebrew scriptures: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god". In Isaiah 44:0920 this is developed into a satire on the making and worship of idols, mocking the foolishness of the carpenter who worships the idol that he himself has carved. While Yahweh had shown his superiority to other gods before, in Second Isaiah he becomes the sole God of the world. This model of monotheism became the defining characteristic of post-Exilic Judaism, and became the basis for Christianity and Islam.[23] A new Exodus A central theme in Second Isaiah is that of a new Exodus the return of the exiled people Israel from Babylon to Jerusalem. The author imagines a ritualistic return to Zion (Judah) led by Yahweh. The importance of this theme is indicated by its placement at the beginning and end of Second Isaiah (40:35, 55:1213). This new Exodus is repeatedly linked with Israel's Exodus from Egypt to Canaan under divine guidance, but with new elements. These links include the following: The original Exodus participants left "in great haste" (Ex 12:11, Deut 16:3), whereas the participants in this new Exodus will "not go out in great haste" (Isa 52:12). The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a "great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland" (Deut 8:15), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon (Mesopotamia) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road (Isa 40:4). In the first Exodus, water was provided by God, but scarcely. In the new Exodus, God will "make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water" (Isa 41:18).[24]
Scroll of Book of Isaiah A fragment of the Book of Isaiah found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Trito-Isaiah (Isaiah 5666)

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Authorship and historical background

Cyrus the Great, the Persian king, conquered Babylon in 539 BCE. One of his first acts was to allow those peoples exiled by the Babylonians (the Jews, among other captive peoples) to return to their respective homes. The Jews, or at least some of them, returned to Jerusalem, and by 515 BCE had rebuilt the Temple. The return, however, was not without problems of its own: the returnees found themselves in conflict with those Jews who had remained in the country and who now owned the land, and there were further conflicts over the form of government that should be set up. This was the background to Trito-Isaiah, who was probably not a single author but a group under the influence of Deutero-Isaiah and his followers.

Content and structure

Trito-Isaiah is not a unity: the majority of scholars regard it as an anthology of about twelve passages, differing in date and/or purpose,[25]:p.394 and it may include material from the First Temple period.[15]:p.183 The contents are correspondingly varied: a confession of sin and a plea to God not to maintain his anger forever (ch.63:764:11); a poem on the theme that God has no need of a temple because Heaven is his throne and Earth his footstool (Isaiah 66:12); verses setting out conditions for admission to the community; complaints of sin, incompetence and paganism; and distinctions between the "righteous" and the "sinners", foreshadowing the categories used in much later Judaism and early Christianity.[25]:pp. 3945

Influence on Christianity
Isaiah is the most quoted of all the books of the Hebrew Bible outside of the Torah.[26] Of notable importance is Isaiah 7:14, where the prophet is assuring king Ahaz that God will save Judah from the invading armies of Israel and Syria; the sign that will prove this is the forthcoming birth of a child called Emmanuel, "God With Us". The Hebrew of the original calls the child's mother a "young woman", but the Greek-speaking 1st century CE author of Matthew 1:23, using the Hellenistic Greek translation of the Hebrew sacred texts, interpreted it as a prophecy that the Messiah would be born of a virgin.[citation needed] Another important passage was Isaiah 40:35, which imagines the exiled Israel proceeding home to Jerusalem on a newly-constructed road, led by the victorious Yahweh who has
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conquered the gods of Babylon. The vision was taken up by all four Gospels and applied to John the Baptist and Jesus, leading God's people out of exile.[27] Isaiah 52:1353:12, the fourth of the "Suffering Servant" songs, was interpreted by the earliest Christians as a prophecy of the death and exaltation of Jesus, a role which Jesus himself seems to have accepted (Luke 4:1721).[20]:pp. 5345

Jehovah's Witnesses adoption of Isaiah 43:1012

The Bible-based name Jehovah's Witnesses identifies these Christians as a 'people for God's name.' The name Jehovah's witnesses, based on Isaiah 43:1012, was adopted in 1931. At Isaiah 43:10, as per New World Translation reads: "'You are my witnesses,' is the utterance of Jehovah, 'even my servant whom I have chosen.'"

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^ a b May, Herbert G. and Bruce M. Metzger. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha. 1977. Peace, 1896 etching by William ^ Williamson (1994), pp. 13] Strutt, based upon Isaiah 11:6,7 ^ Lemche (2008), p.96 ^ a b Kugel, James L. (2008). "chapter 30: The Book of Isaiah(s)". How To Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now. New York, NY: Free Press. pp. 538568. ISBN 978-0-7432-3587-7. ^ a b c d Goldingay, John, Isaiah. New International Biblical Commentary Old Testament Series. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2001 ISBN 0-85364-734-8. ^ Sweeney, Marvin A., Isaiah 14 and the post-exilic understanding of the Isaianic tradition, Beiheft zur Zeitscrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 171. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 1988 ISBN 0-89925-404-7. ^ For an example of the Jewish tradition concerning the composition of Isaiah in antiquity, see Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews XI, ch.1 . Josephus says that the statements about Cyrus the Great were indeed prophecies by Isaiah, but were themselves motivation for Cyrus to bring them to fulfillment as self-fulfilling prophecies. Further, Josephus says, Cyrus used the prophecies to justify and glorify his actions as divine will. For an example of the Christian tradition in antiquity, see Eusebius as reported in Hollerich, Michael J., Eusebius of Caesarea's Commentary on Isaiah: Christian exegesis in the age of Constantine (http://books.google.ca/books?id=ofS9hdOhQwUC&pg=PA139#v=onepage&q&f=false) (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 138-142. Hollerich also writes on Josephus' account. ^ Creelman, Harlan (1917). An Introduction to the Old Testament. The Macmillan company. pp. 172. ^ Eng, Milton, "What's in a Name? Cyrus and the Dating of Deutero-Isaiah (http://books.google.ca/books?id=gkhxEy8Q_44C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA216#v=onepage&q&f=false) " in Kaltner & Stulman (eds.), Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East (T&T Clark International, 2004), pp. 216-224. ^ [1] (http://books.google.ca/books?id=QMENImo6ISYC&pg=PA10) Whybray, Roger Norman, The second Isaiah, Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1983 ISBN 0-56708424-8, pp. 1112. ^ Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1982). The international standard Bible encyclopedia. pp. 895895. ISBN 978-0-8028-3782-0. ^ a b Mercer dictionary of the Bible (http://books.google.ca/books?id=goq0VWw9rGIC&pg=PA414) ^ a b c Boadt, Lawrence (1984). Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction. ISBN 978-0-8091-2631-6. ^ a b "Introduction to the Book of Isaiah" (http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/isaiah/intro.htm) . United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/isaiah/intro.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-29. ^ a b c Blenkinsopp, Joseph, A history of prophecy in Israel, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, revised edition,1996 ISBN 0-664-25639-2 ^ Petersen, David L., "The prophetic literature: an introduction" (Westminster John Knox, 2002) (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=Z9zLXRhNl9MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+prophetic+literature:+an+introduction&source=bl&ots=x2k5u1yeaq&sig=O9v3GiT2rNOQPRPIwrD2jdfM6A&hl=en&ei=cSufTMGaHZDCcaHMudIJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false) p.48 ^ Baker, pp. 490491 ^ pages 432433, Michael D. Coogan, The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-537840-5. Chapter 26. ^ But to the contrary, "a growing consensus that this designation is misleading and should be abandoned", page 346 in Joseph Blenkinsopp, Isaiah 139: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, volume 19, The Anchor Bible, New York: Doubleday, 2000, ISBN 0-385-49716-4. ^ a b c Barker, Margaret, "Isaiah", pages 489542 in Dunn, James D. G., and Rogerson, John William (eds) Eerdmans commentary on the Bible, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2003 ISBN 0-8028-3711-5. (http://books.google.com/books?id=2Vo11umIZQC&pg=PA535&dq=Hezekiah+royal+high+priest&hl=en&ei=iPQBTciwOoqmvgPoj73NBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Hezekia ^ "Servant Songs." On the other hand, Jews interpret it as the nation of Israel. Cross, F. L., ed. The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005 ^ Michael D. Coogan, "A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament" page 334335, Oxford University Press, 2009. ^ Michael D. Coogan, "A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament" pages 335336, Oxford University Press, 2009. ^ Michael D. Coogan, A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament (New York: Oxford, 2009), 333 ^ a b Soggin, J. Alberto, Introduction to the Old Testament: from its origins to the closing of the Alexandrian canon. Old Testament Library. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 3rd edition, 1989 ISBN 0-664-21331-6. Translation of the 4th edition of Introduzione all'Antico Testamento ^ New Testament Citations of the Old Testament by Crossway (http://www.crossway.org/blog/2006/03/nt-citations-of-ot/) ^ Brueggemann p.174

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General commentaries Barker, Margaret (2003). "Isaiah" (http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2Vo11umIZQC&pg=PA489&dq=Barker+the+book+of+Isaiah#v=onepage&q=Barker%20the%20book%20of%20Isaiah%20was%20not%20written%20by%20one%20pe rson&f=false) . In James D. G. Dunn and John William Rogerson. Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible. Eerdmans. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2Vo11umIZQC&pg=PA489&dq=Barker+the+book+of+Isaiah#v=onepage&q=Barker%20the%20book%20of%20Isaiah%20was%20not%20written%20by%20one%20pe rson&f=false. Broyles, Craig C. and Evans, Craig A., ed. (1997). Writing and reading the scroll of Isaiah: Studies of an interpretative tradition (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=CkTBGITvMQIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Writing+and+reading+the+scroll+of+Isaiah#v=onepage&q&f=false) . Supplements to Vetus Testamentum. 70,1. Leiden, New York, Kln: Brill. ISBN 90-04-10936-6. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=CkTBGITvMQIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Writing+and+reading+the+scroll+of+Isaiah#v=onepage&q&f=false. Childs, Brevard S. (2000). Isaiah (http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yTxixTkYagoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Childs,+Brevard+S.++Isaiah#v=onepage&q&f=false) . Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 0-664-22143-2. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=yTxixTkYagoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Childs,+Brevard+S.++Isaiah#v=onepage&q&f=false. Proto-Isaiah (Isaiah 139) Sweeney, Marvin A (1996). Isaiah 139: with an introduction to prophetic literature (http://books.google.com/books?id=BdSzj9SZv0C&pg=PR3&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false) . Eerdmans. http://books.google.com/books?id=BdSzj9-SZv0C&pg=PR3&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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Blenkinsopp, Joseph (2000). Isaiah 1-39: A new translation with introduction and commentary. Anchor Bible. 19. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-49716-4. Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 4055) Goldingay, John (2005). The message of Isaiah 4055: a literary-theological commentary (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=KL_JPUaUensC&pg=PA20&dq=Deuteronomy+40-55#v=onepage&q&f=false) . Continuum International Publishing Group. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=KL_JPUaUensC&pg=PA20&dq=Deuteronomy+40-55#v=onepage&q&f=false. Blenkinsopp, Joseph (2002). Isaiah 4055: A new translation with introduction and commentary. Anchor Bible. 19A. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-49717-2. Whybray, R.N (1983). The Second Isaiah (http://books.google.ca/books?id=QMENImo6ISYC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false) . T&T Clarke. http://books.google.ca/books?id=QMENImo6ISYC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false. Trito-Isaiah (Isaiah 5666) Blenkinsopp, Joseph (2003). Isaiah 5666: A new translation with introduction and commentary. Anchor Bible. 19B. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-50174-9. Smith, Paul Allan (1995). Rhetoric and redaction in Trito-Isaiah: the structure, growth, and authorship of Isaiah 5666 (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=xeVIBodlZLgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Trito-Isaiah#v=onepage&q&f=false) . Leiden and New York: Brill. ISBN 90-04-10306-6. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xeVIBodlZLgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Trito-Isaiah#v=onepage&q&f=false.

General works
Brettler, Marc Zvi (2005). How to read the Bible (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=39nQafdJ_ssC&dq=How+to+read+the+Bible++Marc+Zvi+Brettler&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false) . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. ISBN 978-0-8276-0775-0. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=39nQafdJ_ssC&dq=How+to+read+the+Bible++Marc+Zvi+Brettler&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. Brueggemann, Walter (2003). An introduction to the Old Testament: the canon and Christian imagination (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=WvX4ZlRUxwYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=An+introduction+to+the+Old+Testament+Brueggemann#v=onepage&q&f=false) . Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox. ISBN 978-0-664-22412-7. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=WvX4ZlRUxwYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=An+introduction+to+the+Old+Testament+Brueggemann#v=onepage&q&f=false. Cohn-Sherbok, Dan (1996). The Hebrew Bible (http://books.google.com.au/books?id=esHK1XA7_8UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Hebrew+Bible++Dan+CohnSherbok#v=onepage&q&f=false) . London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-33702-1. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=esHK1XA7_8UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Hebrew+Bible++Dan+Cohn-Sherbok#v=onepage&q&f=false. Le Sor, William Sanford et al., ed. (1996). Old Testament survey: the message, form, and background of the Old Testament (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=6wSWpZmmlAoC&dq=Old+Testament+survey:+the+message,+form,+and+background+of+the+Old+Testament&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false) (2nd ed.). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-3788-3. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=6wSWpZmmlAoC&dq=Old+Testament+survey:+the+message,+form,+and+background+of+the+Old+Testament&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. Lemche, Niels Peter (2008). The Old Testament between theology and history: a critical survey (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=RWqLVc7ccG0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Old+Testament+between+theology+and+history:+a+critical+survey#v=onepage&q=Isaiah&f=false) . Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 978-0-664-23245-0. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=RWqLVc7ccG0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Old+Testament+between+theology+and+history:+a+critical+survey#v=onepage&q=Isaiah&f=false. Levin, Christoph (2005). The Old testament: a brief introduction (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=7geSuBAQ1e0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Old+testament:+a+brief+introduction+Christoph+Levin#v=onepage&q&f=falseLevin,) . Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-11394-7. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=7geSuBAQ1e0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Old+testament:+a+brief+introduction+Christoph+Levin#v=onepage&q&f=falseLevin,. McKenzie, Steven L.; Graham, M.P. (1998). The Hebrew Bible today: an introduction to critical issues (http://books.google.com.au/books? id=owwhpmIVgSAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Hebrew+Bible+today:+an+introduction+to+critical+issues#v=onepage&q&f=false) . Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 0-664-25652-X. http://books.google.com.au/books? id=owwhpmIVgSAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Hebrew+Bible+today:+an+introduction+to+critical+issues#v=onepage&q&f=false.

External links
Translations
Book of Isaiah (http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1001.htm) (Hebrew) side-by-side with English) Book of Isaiah (http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=15755) (English translation [with Rashi's commentary] at Chabad.org) Bible Gateway (http://www.biblegateway.com)

Websites
Introduction to the book of Isaiah (http://www.ibs.org/niv/studybible/isaiah.php) from the NIV Study Bible Was She, or Was She not "A Virgin"? (http://thejewishhome.org/counter/Isa714_1.pdf) , Messiah Truth
Book of Isaiah Major prophets Preceded by Kings Preceded by Song of Songs Preceded by Sirach Hebrew Bible Protestant Old Testament R. Catholic & Eastern Old Testament Succeeded by Jeremiah

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