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The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah

The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah

The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah

Christopher B. Hays, Fuller Theological Seminary, California
November 2024
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    Few writings have shaped the world as much as the Book of Isaiah. Its lyricism, imagery, theology, and ethics are all deeply ingrained into us, and into Judeo-Christian culture more generally. It has been a cultural touchstone from the time when it was formed, and it influenced later Biblical authors as well. The Book of Isaiah is also a complex work of literature, dense with poetry, rhetoric, and theology, and richly intertwined with ancient history. For all these reasons, it is a challenge to read well. The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah serves as an up-to-date and reliable guide to this biblical book. Including diverse perspectives from leading scholars all over the world, it approaches Isaiah from a wide range of methodological approaches. It also introduces the worlds in which the book was produced, the way it was formed, and the impacts it has had on contemporary and later audiences in an accessible way.

    • Provides up-to-date and focused explanations of current scholarship on the history, nature, and legacy of The Book of Isaiah
    • Offers insight into the Book of Isaiah as a cultural touchstone and how its influence has perpetuated since antiquity
    • Contains numerous interdisciplinary essays by internationally recognized authorities on Isaiah

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    November 2024
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    9781108647212
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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction Christopher B. Hays
    • Part I. The Book of Isaiah Through History:
    • 2. The Book of Isaiah in the Assyrian period Michael Chan
    • 3. The Book of Isaiah and the Neo-Babylonian period Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
    • 4. The Book of Isaiah in the Persian period Lucas Schulte
    • 5. The Book of Isaiah at Qumran Jesper Høgenhaven
    • 6. Early versions of Isaiah as translations and interpretations Ronald L. Troxel
    • 7. The formation of the Book of Isaiah Marvin Sweeney
    • Part II. Isaiah in Its Cultural World
    • 8. Ancient Near Eastern prophecy and the study of Isaiah Jonathan Stökl
    • 9. The Book of Isaiah in the history of Israelite religion Christopher B. Hays
    • 10. Isaiah and empire Shawn Zelig Aster
    • 11. Migration in the Book of Isaiah C. L. Crouch
    • Part III. Isaiah as Literature:
    • 12. Isaiah as poetry J. Blake Couey
    • 13. Isaiah in intertextual perspective Hyun Chul Paul Kim
    • 14. Gendered imagery in Isaiah Hanne Løland Levinson
    • 15. Divine and human plans in the Book of Isaiah J. Todd Hibbard
    • Part IV. Afterlives of the Book of Isaiah:
    • 16. Theological tensions in the Book of Isaiah Matthew R. Schlimm
    • 17. The ethical and political vision of Isaiah M. Daniel Carroll R.
    • 18. Isaiah in the New Testament David Pao
    • 19. Impressions of Isaiah in classical Rabbinic literature Joshua Ezra Burns
    • 20. The reception history of Isaiah Brennan Breed.
      Contributors
    • Christopher B. Hays, Michael Chan, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Lucas Schulte, Jesper Høgenhaven, Ronald L. Troxel, Marvin Sweeney, Jonathan Stökl, Shawn Zelig Aster, C. L. Crouch, J. Blake Couey, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, Hanne Løland Levinson, J. Todd Hibbard, Matthew R. Schlimm, M. Daniel Carroll R., David Pao, Joshua Ezra Burns, Brennan Breed

    • Editor
    • Christopher B. Hays , Fuller Theological Seminary, California

      Christopher B. Hays is the D. Wilson Moore Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, and a Research Associate of the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He is the author of The Origins of Isaiah 24–27 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and Death in the Iron Age II and in First Isaiah (Mohr Siebeck, 2011), and co-author of Isaiah: A Paradigmatic Prophet and His Interpreters (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2022). He co-translated Isaiah for the Common English Bible.