Isaiah
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Isaiah
For sheer grandeur and majesty probably no book in the Hebrew Bible can be compared with Isaiah. Because the New Testament writers made frequent appeal to the book in presenting their claims about the nature of Jesus and the church, Isaiah assumed a role of particular importance in Christian interpretation. The important place of the book and its length combined also to make it the testing ground—and battleground for the place of historical criticism. Traditional rabbinic and Christian interpretation had viewed the book as the work of the prophet Isaiah who lived in Jerusalem in the late eighth and early seventh centuries B.C. Critical scholarship, beginning in the late eighteenth century, argued that the book was largely the product of at least two or three different authors widely separated in time and place. For a time interest in Isaiah was seemingly less in the grandeur and majesty of the book’s message than in the battle over its unity and compositional history. - Raymond B. Dillard and Tremper Longman III - AN INTRODUCTION to the OLD TESTAMENT
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Old Testament