Reading Isaiah: Poetry and Vision

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Floyd, Michael H | Copyright information

Reading Isaiah: Poetry and Vision. By Peter D. Quinn-Miscall. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2001. vii + 224 pp. $20.95 (paper).

Quinn-Miscall (Q-M) intends to provide an alternative to the conventional way of reading the book of Isaiah. Biblical scholars have long regarded this sprawling composition as a relatively artificial combination of three different documents, each representing a prophetic message from a different time. According to the hypothesis, chapters 1-39 have a...

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