Westminster Bible Companion: Isaiah 40–66
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Overview
In this volume, Walter Brueggemann focuses on Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40–55), believed to be written by a second exilic poet, and Third Isaiah (Isaiah 56–66), a third group of texts that rearticulate Isaianic theology in yet another faith situation. Brueggemann discusses both the distinctiveness of the texts and their canonical relatedness.
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- Discusses both the distinctiveness of the texts and their canonical relatedness
- Unfolds the various contexts and principles found in Scripture
- Helps prepare pastors, students, and laity relay the Bible's teaching in a clear way
- The God of All Comfort: Isaiah 40–55
- “Maintain Justice, and Do What Is Right”: Isaiah 56:1–66:24
Top Highlights
“Consistently, the turn of history is God’s own work. Now, in a way characteristic for Israel’s faith, it is affirmed that God’s work in the world is to be enacted by human agency.” (Page 41)
“Yes, the people is grass. But then this speaker refutes the conclusion just drawn from the assessment of transitoriness: ‘But!’ ‘But the word of our God stands forever.’ The offer of comfort is not based on the suitability or qualification of the people but upon the resolve of God. The good news of life beginning again for the exiles is rooted solely in Yahweh’s decision already given in verses 1–2. The prophet no longer has any ground for refusing the message or its delivery.” (Page 20)
“In Isaiah 5:7, Israel is severely judged because it failed in justice and righteousness (see Amos 5:7, 24; 6:12). In Isaiah 9:7, echoing Psalm 72:1, it is anticipated and insisted that Davidic power will be devoted to justice and righteousness for the poor and needy.” (Page 168)
“‘herald of good tidings.’ The substance of this address is so crucial because this is the first intentional, self-conscious use of the term gospel in the Old Testament. The prophet-herald is to announce ‘gospel’ to the cities of Judah. The ‘good news’ is summarized: ‘Behold your God.’ Or we might say, ‘Look, here is your God.’ The gospel makes the God of Israel visible and effective in a setting from which Yahweh had seemed to be expelled.” (Page 20)
“‘The servant’ may function here to assert (a) that emancipation is linked to willing sufferers who suffer for the sake of the community and (b) that emancipation is perhaps for a larger purpose than simply the gift of homecoming—perhaps an invitation to mission that concerns the well-being of the world beyond Judaism.” (Page 13)
Walter Brueggemann is Emeritus William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of many books including First and Second Samuel and Genesis in the Interpretation series, David's Truth: In Israel’s Imagination and Memory, Spirituality of the Psalms, The Prophetic Imagination and Cadences of Home: Preaching Among Exilesv.
