Isaiah 1-33, Volume 24: Revised Edition (24) (Word Biblical Commentary)

✍ Scribed by Bruce M. Metzger (editor), David Allen Hubbard (editor), Glenn W. Barker (editor)

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 623
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.

Overview of Commentary Organization

• Introduction—covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.
• Each section of the commentary includes:
• Pericope Bibliography—a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
• Translation—the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.
• Notes—the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.
• Form/Structure/Setting—a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
• Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.
• Explanation—brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
  • General Bibliography—occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Essays and Tables
Excursuses
Strands
Illustrations
Editorial Preface
Author’s Preface
Author’s Preface to the Second Edition
Abbreviations
Main Bibliography
Commentary Bibliography
General Bibliography
Introduction
Summary
Who Was Isaiah?
The Role of Isaiah Son of Amoz In the Vision
Isaiah the Prophet and His Successors
The Implied Author
What Is Isaiah?
Isaiah Is a Text
Isaiah’s Influence In Early Judaism and the New Testament
Isaiah’s Influence In Judaism, Church History, and Western Literature
Bibliographies
Annotated Chronological Bibliography of Commentaries On Isaiah
Selected Articles and Monographs On Isaiah
Deutero-Isaiah (Chaps. 40–66)
Trito-Isaiah (Chaps. 55-66)
Some Recent Work On Isaiah As a Unity
The Messianic Interpretation of Isaiah
Newer Commentaries
Isaiah Is a Literary Drama
The ἀγῶν “Problem”
Speakers/Characters
YHWH: Protagonist
The Prophet/Implied Author
Israel: Antagonist
Choral Speakers and Groups Addressed
Plot
Settings: Places and Times
Genre
Themes
Effect and Affect
Purpose
The Vision of Isaiah As Theology
YHWH’s Strategy
YHWH’s Problem
Text and Commentary
Prologue (1:1–4:6)
Title (1:1)
In the Hall of the King of Heaven and Earth, Rebellious Children, Violent Worshipers, Polluted City (1:2–31)
Israel’s Disappointed Father and Outraged Patron of Jerusalem’s Temple (1:2–20)
How Has She Become a Harlot? Let Me Smelt Your Dross Like Lye (1:21–31)
Title (2:1)
The Mountain of YHWH’s House (2:2–4)
Israel Not Welcome/The Day of YHWH (2:5–22)
Jerusalem’s Ordeal (3:1–4:6)
Jerusalem Shall Totter (3:1–12)
YHWH Stands for Judgment (3:13–15)
“In That Day”: Haughty Daughters of Zion (3:16–4:1)
YHWH’s Branch (4:2–6)
Part I: The Decreed Destruction of the Whole Land (5:1–33:24)
Introduction to Part I (5:1–6:13)
Requiem for Israel (5:1–30)
My Friend’s Song for His Vineyard (5:1–7)
Therefore My People Are Exiled (5:8–25)
Signal to a Distant Nation (5:26–30)
In God’s Heavenly Courtroom (6:1–13)
Act 1: Jerusalem’s Royal Heir (7:1–12:6)
Scene 1: Of Sons and Signs (7:1–9:6 [7])
Narrative: A Word for the King and a Sign (7:1–16)
The Setting (7:1–2)
Keep Calm and Steady (7:3–9)
The Sign: “Within Three Years” (7:10–16)
Announcement: YHWH Is Bringing Critical Times, the Assyrian Era (7:17–25)
Memoirs of the Prophet (8:1–9:6 [7])
Swift-Plunder, Hastening-Booty (8:1–4)
Waters of Shiloah Refused (8:5–10)
YHWH Is Your Fear (8:11–15)
Sealing the Prophet’s Testimony (8:16–18)
To Instruction and to Testimony (8:19–22)
To Us a Son Is Born (8:23–9:6 [9:1–7])
Scene 2: A Word Against Jacob (9:7 [8]–10:23)
A Prophetic Interpretation of History (9:7 [8]–10:4)
The Assyrian King, Rod of My Anger (10:5–19)
“In That Day”: Only a Remnant of Israel (10:20–23)
Scene 3: A Word for Jerusalem (10:24–12:6)
Jerusalemites, Do Not Fear the Assyrian (10:24–27c)
“In That Day”: The March of Conquest (10:27d–32)
The Forester Before Jerusalem (10:33–34)
A Shoot from the Stump of Jesse (11:1–10)
YHWH’s Second Deliverance (11:11–16)
Hymns for “That Day” (12:1–6)
Act 2: The Burden of Babylon (13:1–27:13)
Title (13:1)
Introduction (Frame): YHWH’s Wars and Babylon’s Fate (13:2–14:23)
The Day of YHWH (13:2–16)
Babylon’s Fate—Israel’s Hope (13:17–14:23)
YHWH Overwhelms Babylon (13:17–22a)
(For) Jacob’s Hope (13:22b–14:2)
Taunt Over a Fallen Tyrant (14:3–21)
Oracle Against Babylon (14:22–23)
The Assyrian Period (14:24–23:18)
YHWH’s Plan for Assyria and the Whole Land (14:24–27)
In the Death Year of King Ahaz (14:28–32)
Burden: Moab (15:1–16:14)
Burdens: Damascus and Egypt, 716–714 B.C.E. (17:1–20:6)
Reflections On Israel’s Position (17:1–9)
Admonition and Two “Woe” Passages (17:10–14)
Address to “All You People of the Land” (18:1–7)
Burden: Egypt (19:1–20:6)
See! YHWH Against Egypt (19:1–15)
Worship of YHWH In Egypt: Five “In That Day” Passages (19:16–25)
Isaiah Demonstrates Against an Alliance With Egypt (20:1–6)
Four Ambiguous Burdens (21:1–22:25)
Burden: A Swampland (21:1–10)
Burden: Silence (21:11–12)
Burden: In the Wasteland (21:13–17)
Burden: The Valley of Vision (22:1–14)
Shebna and Eliakim Are Dismissed (22:15–25)
Burden: Tyre and the Desolate Land (23:1–27:13)
Burden: Tyre (23:1–18)
A Concluding Liturgy (24:1–27:13)
See: YHWH Devastates the Land (24:1–13)
Responses: They Raise Their Voices (24:14–20)
YHWH of Hosts Reigns On Mount Zion (24:21–25:8)
Response from a Yahwist (25:9–12)
Response: Song of the Judeans (26:1–19)
The Judgment and Its Results for Israel (26:20–27:13)
YHWH Emerges to Judge the People of the Land (26:20–21)
Leviathan’s Fate/Israel’s Hope (27:1–6)
“That Day” for Israel (27:7–13)
Act 3: The Woes of Israel and Jerusalem (28:1–33:24)
Disaster from Expansion (28:1–29)
Woe, Ephraim’s Drunkards (28:1–13)
Scoffers In Jerusalem (28:14–22)
YHWH’s Strategy: A Parable (28:23–29)
Disaster for Jerusalem’s Policies (29:1–24)
Woe, Ariel (29:1–8)
Like a Sealed Book (29:9–14)
Woe, You Schemers (29:15–24)
Disaster from Rebellious Self-Help (30:1–33)
Woe, Rebellious Children (30:1–18)
Hope from the Teachers (30:19–26)
A Cultic Theophany (30:27–33)
Disaster from False Faith In Egypt (31:1–32:20)
Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt for Help! (31:1–9)
Suppose a King . . . (32:1–8)
Until Spirit Is Poured Out (32:9–20)
God’s Promise to Judge the Tyrant (33:1–24)
Woe, You Destroyer (33:1–6)
See! Their Valiant One! (33:7–12)
Who Can Survive the Fire? (33:13–24)