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Article: Deutero-Isaiah. (Briefly Noted).(Book Review)
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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Deutero-Isaiah. By Klaus Baltzer (Fortress, $78). B., longtime professor at Munich and famous for his earlier work on covenant in the Old Testament, believes that Isaiah 40-55 should be classified as a liturgical drama, which was performed for a largely nonliterary public. B. divides the text into six acts framed by a prologue and an epilogue. The so-called servant songs appear in acts 1, 4, 5, and 6. B. departs from the majority of scholars in identifying Jerusalem as the place where the book was composed, but he holds that the book was performed for the exile group in Babylon, heralding Jerusalem as a place of pilgrimage. The author of the work is ...