Isaiah 1-39: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

From: Interpretation | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Sweeney, Marvin A | Copyright information

Isaiah 1-39: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Joseph Blenkinsopp

Anchor Bible 19. Doubleday, New York, 2000. 548 pp. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-385-49716-4.

BLENKINSOPP'S COMMENTARY, THE FIRST of a projected three-volume work, is written with full awareness of the paradigm shift in recent study of Isaiah, as scholars have digested the results of modern literary and historical analysis of the book as a whole. Throughout the twentieth century, scholars have foll...

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