Reading Isaiah A Literary and Theological Commentary

includes index and biblioraphy

Literary formation and Features..........2 Historical, Cultural, and Sociopolitical Data ...........7 Thematic and Theological Ideas ..............17 Isaiah`s Vision about Judah and Jerusalem ..............29 The Twofold Overture to the Scroll of Isaiah .........30 Purging and Transformation of Jerusalem ..........41 Signs and warnings for the king and People of Judah............46 An Ideal Future Kingdom, starting from the Stump of Jesse...................73 Ten Oracles about the Nationals ...............79 Tales of Two Cities and Parties ............115 Chaotic Forces of the Earth.........117 Six woe-Oracles- Five against the leaders of Israel and Judah plus one Against the superpower destroyers of Zion...................133 Hopeful Stories of Trust and deliverance amid Imperial Threats ...........165 The model King-Hezekiah Amid the Assyrian Siege.....................167 The Healed King-Hezekiah Amid his Illness and Babylonian Threat..............176 New Things to anticipate for servant Jacob-Israel via Cyrus ...........185 Oracles of Salvation for Doubting Jacob-Israel Amid the Babylonian Exile ..............186 Yhwh Claims Jacob-Israel as the Servant...........210 From Anti-Idols satires to Anti-Babylon Polemics, ...........216 Good News of New Generations for daughter zion..........229 The servant Consoled and Zion comforted ........230 The servant will prosper, Zion`s Offspring will multiply.............244 The Marginalized righteous versus the dishonorable wicked............251 Glorious future of zion for the righteous remnants contra the perpetrators ...................267 Restoration and reform of cultus and ethos.................268 Zion`s Glorious Future....................275 The Penitent community`s Lament to God the parent and the potter .................283 YHWh the Rightwous parent answeres..........288