Discovering Isaiah: content, interpretation, reception
Discovering Isaiah is a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament book of Isaiah, offering commentary on structure, content and interpretation that is ideal for students of theology.
| Summary: | Discovering Isaiah is a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament book of Isaiah, offering commentary on structure, content and interpretation that is ideal for students of theology. Intro -- Discovering Isaiah -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1An enduring word -- Our starting point -- Our strategy -- The structure of our book -- 2Pre-modern readings of Isaiah -- From the Old Testament to the New Testament -- Isaiah in the Old Testament -- Jesus ben Sira -- Qumran Isaiah -- Greek Isaiah -- Isaiah in the New Testament -- The early Church -- The Ascension of Isaiah -- Defence of Christianity -- Commentaries on Isaiah -- The Middle Ages -- Thomas Aquinas -- Medieval rabbinic commentary -- Isaiah in the Reformation -- Martin Luther -- John Calvin -- Campegius Vitringa -- Conclusion -- 3Interpreting Isaiah in the modern era -- Breaking Isaiah into pieces (eighteenth to mid twentieth centuries) -- Two books -- Three books -- Chronological rearrangement -- Reactions -- Authorship and faith -- Literary fragmentation -- Reassembling Isaiah (mid twentieth to twenty-first centuries) -- Engaging Isaiah (late twentieth century to present) -- The canonical approach -- The literary approach -- Experientialists -- Conclusion, assessment, and a path forward -- 4The history Isaiah tells -- A story of judgement and salvation -- The metanarrative of Isaiah -- Phase 1: Judgement through Assyria and Babylon -- Phase 2: Cyrus to the rescue! -- Phase 3: The Servant reconstitutes God's people -- Phase 4: The endgame -- The structure of Isaiah -- Your place in Isaiah's story -- Conclusion -- 5Holy, holy, holy -- The holy in Isaiah -- Isaiah 6 -- The Holy One of Israel: transcendence and immanence -- Holiness in the story of Isaiah -- Holy, holy, holy in reception -- New Testament -- Christological and Trinitarian revelation -- Assessment of pre-modern interpretation -- Liturgy of the holy -- Conclusion -- 6Zion -- What is Zion? -- Physical Zion -- Symbolic Zion -- God's royal presence in Zion. |
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| ISBN: | 0281077673 |