Deutero-Isaiah : a commentary on Isaiah 40-55 / by Klaus Baltzer ; translated by Margaret Kohl ; edited by Peter Machinist.
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Hermeneia--a critical and historical commentary on the Bible.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Literary questions
- Historical questions
- Deutero-Isaiah's theology
- Structure: Isaiah 40-55
- Prologue 40:1-31 "In heaven as on earth"
- Act 1 41:1--42:13 The beginning of what is to come--"The earlier happenings-see, they have come about! But new ones I declare-before they spring up I let you hear of them" (42:9)
- Act 2 42:14-44:23 Jacob/Israel (again) Yahweh's servant--"Yes, Yahweh has redeemed/liberated Jacob and in/through Israel will he glorify himself" (44:23)
- Act 3 44:24--45:25 The sovereignty of God and earthly rule--"Who says to Cyrus: 'my shepherd!' and 'All that I wish he will fulfill ... ' " (44:28)--"Only in Yahweh [is there] ... righteousness and strength" (45:24)
- Act 4 46:1--49:13 The downfall of Babylon--"Yes! Yahweh has comforted his people and has compassion on his afflicted [oppressed] ones" (49:13)
- Act 5 49:14--52:10 The rise of Zion/Jerusalem out of deepest humiliation--"All the ends of the earth see the help of our God" (52:10)
- Act 6 52:11--54:17 Salvation for the servant of God--salvation for Zion/Jerusalem--"This is the inheritance of Yahweh's servants and their righteousness before me, saying of Yahweh's" (54:17)
- Epilogue 55:1-13 Festival of the pilgrimage to "the Holy City."