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The Book of Isaiah - Its Composition and Final Form (Hardcover, New)
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The Book of Isaiah - Its Composition and Final Form (Hardcover, New)
Series: Hebrew Bible Monographs, 46
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Study of the book of Isaiah has in recent times been strongly
marked by a tension between synchronic and diachronic approaches.
The first is favoured mainly by English-speaking, the second by
German-speaking scholars. Berges's book attempts to mediate between
the two poles, arguing that the final form analysis and the tracing
of the development of that form are deeply interdependent. This new
research paradigm is applied here to the entire text of the book of
Isaiah. Berges works consistently from the synchronic to the
diachronic and back again to the evolved synchronous final form.
Features that have been repeatedly observed-the cross-connections,
key word associations, resumption of themes, and especially the
bracketing of the book by chaps. 1 and 66-are traces of a
deliberate interweaving of various small compositions as well as of
larger literary redactions. The paradigm most suited to the book of
Isaiah in all its complexity is not that of one comprehensive
overall structure or final redaction, but that of smaller
compositions that build on one another, come into conversation with
one another, and, each in its own way, bring into play specific
contemporary problems. We should not force a common thematic
denominator on the book, but it becomes clear that Jerusalem and
Zion belong to the basic tenor of the book of Isaiah as it was
developed and refashioned through the centuries. The Book of
Isaiah: Its Composition and Final Form is translated by Millard C.
Lind from its German original, Das Buch Jesaja: Komposition und
Endgestalt (Freiburg: Herder, 1998).
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