• One of the classics and always worth consulting on matters of text and grammar.
    1. Clearly not the book for me since I'm not a Christian who "who take[s] seriously the inspired truth of Scripture," according to the blurb: "ultimately concluding that the entire Bible considers Adam the historical progenitor of the human race—a position that must therefore be accepted as a premise for Christians who take seriously the inspired truth of Scripture."
      1. I don't agree with your view of creation (I'm a YE guy myself) but I entirely agree with the sentiment of your comment. I don't like the "I disagree with you therefore you don't take scripture as seriously as I do" approach to these things. That said, I very highly doubt Bill Craig was the one who wrote that blurb, he's usually very charitable to opposition from what I've seen.
    2. A fantastic commentary. Along with E. G. Selwyn (1946), John Elliot (2007), and J. Ramsey Michaels (2015), we have a solid set of exegetical commentaries on this biblical book.
      1. By FAR the single best resource on the parables of Jesus. Deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Jeremias' Rediscovering the Parables and Ken Bailey's Poet and Peasant. An absolute must if you want to understand the parables in their historical-cultural-linguistic context. Couldn't recommend it more highly.
        1. I regularly use MOulton-Howard-Turner and Blass-DeBrunner-Funk in my work with the NT and find them extraordinarily helpful in my readings of the Greek NT.
          1. Shalom Paul is at the top of the food chain as far as interpreting prophetic books is concerned, so I'm very grateful to have this commentary for free, especially since good commentaries on Isaiah 40-66 are hard to find. As for the question of authorship, I'd commend the evangelical Bible Project's video on Isaiah 40-66, where they discuss the question of whether it is Isaiah himself or the disciples of Isaiah that are responsible for these chapters in the canonical book. They do conclude that however that question is resolved (almost all scholars who work with the Hebrew text think a second hand is involved, as do I), it is beyond question that the focus on Isaiah 40-55 is the community of faith in Babylon, and that the focus on Isaiah 56-66 is on the community of faith after the end of the Babylonian exile back in Judah/Jerusalem. All in all, one of the best commentaries on a prophetic book that I have ever had the chance to review.