Deutero-Isaiah : A Commentary / by Klaus Baltzer ; translated by Margaret Kohl ; edited by Peter Machinist.

Introduction -- Literary questions -- Historical questions -- Deutero-Isaiah's theology -- Structure: Isaiah 40-55 -- Prologue 40:1-31 "In heaven as on earth" -- Act 1 41:1 -- 42:13 The beginning of what is to come -- "The earlier happenings-see, they have come about! But new ones I declare-before they spring up I let you hear of them" (42:9) -- Act 2 42:14-44:23 Jacob/Israel (again) Yahweh's servant -- "Yes, Yahweh has redeemed/liberated Jacob and in/through Israel will he glorify himself" (44:23) -- Act 3 44:24 -- 45:25 The sovereignty of God and earthly rule -- "Who says to Cyrus: 'my shepherd!' and 'All that I wish he will fulfill ... ' " (44:28) -- "Only in Yahweh [is there] ... righteousness and strength" (45:24) -- Act 4 46:1 -- 49:13 The downfall of Babylon -- "Yes! Yahweh has comforted his people and has compassion on his afflicted [oppressed] ones" (49:13) -- Act 5 49:14 -- 52:10 The rise of Zion/Jerusalem out of deepest humiliation -- "All the ends of the earth see the help of our God" (52:10) -- Act 6 52:11 -- 54:17 Salvation for the servant of God -- salvation for Zion/Jerusalem -- "This is the inheritance of Yahweh's servants and their righteousness before me, saying of Yahweh's" (54:17) -- Epilogue 55:1-13 Festival of the pilgrimage to "the Holy City."

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