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Product DescriptScholars have traditally isolated three distinct sects of what is known as the Book of Isaiah, and inIsaiah 40-55, distinguished biblical scholar Joseph Blenkinsopp provid… Mehr…

Product DescriptScholars have traditally isolated three distinct sects of what is known as the Book of Isaiah, and inIsaiah 40-55, distinguished biblical scholar Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a new translat and critical commentary on the sect usually referred to as Second or Deutero Isaiah. The second volume in a three-volume commentary, it easily maintains the high standards of academic excellence established byIsaiah1-39.Second Isaiah was written in the sixth century b.c.e., in the years just before the fall of the mighty Babylonian Empire, by an anonymous prophet whom history has erroneously identified with the real Isaiah (born ca. 765 b.c.e.). Scholars know Second Isaiah was written by someone other than Isaiah because the contexts of these prophecies are so very different. When Second Isaiah was written, the prophet believed that Israel?s time of suffering was drawing to a close. There was, he insisted, a new age upon them, a time of hope, peace, and renewed natal prosperity. The main thrust of the prophet?s argument was intended to rally the spirits of a people devastated by and conquest. One of the most famous examples of this optiic tone is the well-known and beloved Song of the Suffering Servant, which is found in Chapters 52-53, and about which Blenkinsopp has some challenging new ideas.The final chapters of Second Isaiah, however, are in an entirely different key as it becomes clear that the new world the prophet foresaw earlier was not going to come to pass. This despair finds its most poignant express in the final sect of the Book of Isaiah, which Blenkinsopp will address in his foroming third volume.From the Inside FlapScholars have traditally isolated three distinct sects of what is known as the Book of Isaiah, and inIsaiah 40?55, distinguished biblical scholar Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a new translat and critical commentary on the sect usually referred to as Second or Deutero Isaiah. The second volume in a three-volume commentary, it easily maintains the high standards of academic excellence established byIsaiah1?39.Second Isaiah was written in the sixth century b.c.e., in the years just before the fall of the mighty Babylonian Empire, by an anonymous prophet whom history has erroneously identified with the real Isaiah (born ca. 765 b.c.e.). Scholars know Second Isaiah was written by someone other than Isaiah because the contexts of these prophecies are so very different. When Second Isaiah was written, the prophet believed that Israel?s time of suffering was drawing to a close. There was, he insisted, a new age upon them, a time of hope, peace, and renewed natal prosperity. The main thrust of the prophet?s argument was intended to rally the spirits of a people devastated by and conquest. One of the most famous examples of this optiic tone is the well-known and beloved Song of the Suffering Servant, which is found in Chapters 52?53, and about which Blenkinsopp has some challenging new ideas.The final chapters of Second Isaiah, however, are in an entirely different key as it becomes clear that the new world the prophet foresaw earlier was not going to come to pass. This despair finds its most poignant express in the final sect of the Book of Isaiah, which Blenkinsopp will address in his foroming third volume.About the AuthorJOSEPH BLENKINSOPP is currently the John A. O?Brien Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 1970. Among his many scholarly publicats on the Hebrew Bible is the Anchor Bible Reference Library volumesThe Pentateuch andIsaiah1-39. Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Bestes Angebot, [LT: BestOffer], Edition Description: 1St Edition, Binding: Hardcover, Publication Date: 16-04-2002, Sprache: English, Country of Origin: USA, United States, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Inches: 1.18X9.46X6.32, ISBN-10: 0385497172, ISBN-13: 9780385497176, SKU: SONG0385497172, Buchtitel: Isaiah 40-55: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, Anchor Bible<