Article: Isaiah 1-39: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. (Briefly Noted).(Book Review)

Isaiah 1-39: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. By Joseph Blenkinsopp (Doubleday, $50). This recent volume in the Anchor Bible commentary series brings excellent historical critical and philological tools to the task of exegesis and will be followed by a second volume by B. on Isaiah 40-66. While B. admits that there are late redactional links between the first and last chapters of the book of Isaiah, he opposes the idea that Second Isaiah was written by a school of devotees to the Isaianic tradition and concludes that Second Isaiah's concern for the reconstruction of Jerusalem made a good fit with the single-minded ...

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