First Isaiah : a commentary / by J.J.M. Roberts ; edited by Peter Machinist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, J. J. M. (Jimmy Jack McBee), 1939- author.

Contributor:

Machinist, Peter, editor.

Series:

Hermeneia--a critical and historical commentary on the Bible

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Isaiah--Commentaries.

Bible.

Bible. Isaiah.

Genre:

Kommentar.

Commentaries.

Physical Description:

xxix, 524 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2015]

Summary:

The eighth century BCE Isaiah of Jerusalem, the so-called First Isaiah, is one of the most important theological voices in the Bible. J. J. M. Roberts takes a classical historical-critical approach to his interpretation of this material, making good use of his broad comparative knowledge of ancient Near Eastern historical and religious sources. In light of Isaiah's very long prophetic ministry of at least thirty-eight years, and perhaps as long as fifty-three years, Roberts also suggests Isaiah often reedited older oracles from early in his ministry to address new, though somewhat analogous situations, albeit with different players, later in his ministry, without erasing telltale signs of the material's earlier origin. In many cases, this suggestion provides a better explanation for glaring inconsistencies in an apparently connected text than the common fragmentation of the text that attributes such inconsistencies to later editors who either misunderstood or intentionally altered Isaiah-s message for their own purposes. -- Amazon

Contents:

1:1. Heading

1:2-20. The covenant lawsuit

1.21-28. The city of God : renewal of a symbol

1:29-31. The sacred groves

2:1. A second heading

2:2-22. The future exaltation of Zion : a warning against the North

3:1-15. Judgment on Judah

3:16-4:1. The haughty women of Zion

4:2-6. The purified Jerusalem

5:1-7. The song of the vineyard

5:8-24. The Hoy-Oracles

10:1-4; 5:25-30. Two misplaced pericopes

6:1-9:7 (9:6 Heb.). A collection of Isaiah's memoirs

9:7-20 (Eng. 9:8-21) + 5:25-30. Judgment on Israel

10:5-34. Judgment on Assyria, God's arrogant tool

11:1-10. The shoot of Jesse

11:11-16. The reunification of Judah and Ephraim

12:1-6. A hymn of praise for salvation

13:1-22. Yahweh summons the Medes to punish Babylon

14:1-4. Introduction to the Taunt song

14:4b-21. The Taunt song

14:22-23. An exilic addition

14:24-27. God's plan for Assyria

14:8-32. The rod that smote Philistia

15-16. An oracle over Moab

17.1-14. Oracles against Damascus and Ephraim

18.1-7. An oracle against Nubia

19.1-25. An extended oracleor oracles against Egypt

20.1-6. The Ashdod affair

21.1-10, 11-12, 13-17. Three disputed oracles

22:1-14. The collapse of the Babylonian front and the sin of Jerusalem's elite

22:15-25. Shebna and Eliakim

23:1-18. The oracle against Tyre

24-27. The little Isaiah apocalypse

18:1-6. An early oracle against the North

28:7-22. The extension of that oracle against the Judean leaders

28:23-29. The parable of the farmer

29:1-8. Yahweh's punishment and deliverance of Jerusalem

29:9-14. Willful blindness and God's marvelous work

29:15-16. The folly of Judah's counselors

29:17-24. A reworked promise to the North

30:1-5. Against God's rebellious children who make a treaty with Egypt

30:6-7. Oracle about the beasts of the Negeb

30:8-17. Writing down the prophecy as a witness for the future

30:18-26. Yahweh's promise of a better future for Zioin

30:27-33. Yahweh comes in fiery judgment

31:1-9. A composite oracle against reliance on Egypt

32_1-8. The transformed society of the rulers and ruled in the age of salvation

32:9-29. Against carefree women adn the judgment and deliverance to come

33:1-24. An Isaianic elaboration of the Zion tradition

34-35

34:1-17. Oracle against Edom

35:1-10. The return of God's people to Zion

36-39. Stories about Hezekiah and Isaiah

36:1-37:8. Sennacherib's campaign against Hezekiah

37:9-38. Sennacherib's letter to Hezekiah and Isaiah's response

38:1-8, 21. Hezekiah's illness and cure

38:9-20. The Psalm of Hezekiah

39:1-8. Merodach-Baladan's embassy to Hezekiah.

Notes:

Facsimiles on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-502) and indexes.

ISBN:

0800660803

9780800660802

9781506402901

1506402909

OCLC:

908176161