Historical Context – Additional Resources

Further Reading:

Commentaries:

• John Barton, Isaiah 1-39 (Old Testament Guides; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.
• Joseph Blenkinsopp, Isaiah 1-39 (Anchor Bible 19; New York: Doubleday, 2000).
• Brevard S. Childs, Isaiah (Old Testament Library; Louisville: Westminster, 2001).
• J. J. M. Roberts, First Isaiah. Hermeneia (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015).
• G. M. Tucker, “The Book of Isaiah 1-39,” New Interpreter’s Bible 6:27-305.

Themes:

• J. J. Collins, “The Sign of Immanuel,” in John Day, ed., Prophecy and the Prophets in ancient Israel (London: T&T Clark, 2010), 225-44.
• J. D. Levenson, Sinai and Zion (New York: Harper, 1987), 89-184.
• H. G. M. Williamson, Variations of a Theme: King, Messiah and Servant in the Book of Isaiah (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998).
• Robert R. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980).

Articles: (click to view)

• Isaiah: Hebrew Prophet, at Encyclopedia Britannica

Lectures: (click to view)

• YDS Old Testament Interpretation, Part 2 – Lecture 4, by John Collins

Video: (click to view)

• Overview: Isaiah 1-39, at the Bible Project

Podcasts: (click to access)

• “Expectations” (Christmas), Chapter, Verse, and Season: A Lectionary Podcast

Art: (click to view)

• Prophet Isaiah predicts the return of jews from exile, by Maarten van Heemskerck
• The Prophet Isaiah, by Michelangelo Buonarroti
• The Prophet Isaiah, by James Tissot