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7 - The Formation of the Book of Isaiah

Foundations and Current Issues

from Part I - The Book of Isaiah Through History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2024

By
Marvin A. Sweeney
Edited by
Christopher B. Hays
Christopher B. Hays
Affiliation:
Fuller Theological Seminary, California
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Summary

In “The Formation of the Book of Isaiah: Foundations and Current Issues,” Marvin A. Sweeney analyzes the history of scholarship about the editorial processes that gave rise to the Hebrew text as we have it. As scholars have long done, he takes Bernhard Duhm’s nineteenth-century commentary as a starting point, but then shows the myriad ways in which more recent scholars have challenged his presuppositions and greatly improved on his findings. In the process, he identifies many of the themes and features in the book that have led him and other interpreters to perceive a redactional shaping of the book in four major phases—broadly one per century in the eighth through fifth centuries bce. Sweeney’s most significant contributions to the study of Isaiah, reflected here, have been his demonstration of the Davidic covenant in the final form of the book and his refinement of our understanding of the Josianic layer from the late seventh century bce.

Keywords

CyrusDavidic covenantDuhmExodus traditionEzraJosianic redactionNehemiah
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The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah , pp. 100 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Berges, Ulrich, Das Buch Jesaja: Komposition und Endgestalt. Freiburg: Herder, 1998.Google Scholar
Berges, Ulrich, Jesaja 40–48. HThKAT; Freiburg: Herder, 2008.Google Scholar
Berges, Ulrich, Jesaja 49–54. HThKAT; Freiburg: Herder, 2015.Google Scholar
Hauser, Alan J., ed. Recent Research on the Major Prophets. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Hays, Christopher B., The Origins of Isaiah 24–27: Isaiah’s Festival Scroll for the Fall of Assyria. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kim, Hyun Chul Paul, Reading Isaiah: A Literary and Theological Commentary. ROT; Macon, GA: Smyth and Helwys, 2016.Google Scholar
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Rendtorff, Rolf, Canon and Theology: Overtures to an Old Testament Theology. OBT; Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1993.Google Scholar
Sekine, Seizo, Die tritojesajanische Sammlung (Jes 56–66) redaktionsgeschichtliche untersucht. BZAW 175; Berlin and New York, 1989.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Steck, Odil Hannes, Studien zu Tritojesaja. BZAW 203; Berlin and New York, 1991.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stromberg, Jacob, An Introduction to the Study of Isaiah. London and New York: T and T Clark, 2011a.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stromberg, Jacob, Isaiah after Exile: The Author of Third Isaiah as Reader and Redactor of the Book. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011b.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sweeney, Marvin A., Isaiah 1–39, with An Introduction to Prophetic Literature. FOTL 16; Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 1996.Google Scholar
Sweeney, Marvin A., Isaiah 40–66. FOTL; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016.Google Scholar
Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia, For the Comfort of Zion: The Geographical and Theological Location of Isaiah 40–55 (VTSup 139; Leiden: Brill, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williamson, H. G. M., The Book Called Isaiah: Deutero-Isaiah’s Role in Composition and Redaction. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williamson, H. G. M., Isaiah 1–5. ICC. London: Bloomsbury T and T Clark, 2006; Isaiah 6–12, ICC. London: Bloomsbury T and T Clark, 2018.Google Scholar

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