Isaiah as the 'fifth Gospel'.(Book review)

From: The Christian Century | Date: March 11, 2008| Author: Brueggemann, Walter | Copyright information

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Isaiah: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators. Edited and translated by Robert Louis Wilken. Eerdmans, 618 pp., $45.00.

This extraordinary volume is among the first in a new series of commentaries from Eerdmans that invites attention to the history of church interpretation of the Bible in precritical modes. The editor and translator of this volume on Isaiah--Robert Louis Wilken, professor of the history of Christianity...

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