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Informationen zum Autor Marvin A. Sweeney, Ph.D., is professor of Hebrew Bible at the School of Theology at Claremont and professor of religion at the Claremont Graduate School. He has served as the Dorot Research Professor at the W.F. Albright Institute and as Yad Hanadiv/Barecha Foundation Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Isaiah 1-39, with an Introduction to Prophetic Literature (FOTL 16; Gran Rapids: William Eerdmans, 1995); Isaiah 1-4 and the Post-Exilic Understanding of the Isaianic Tradition (BZAW 171; Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1988), and other studies on biblical literature. Klappentext Isaiah 40-66, by Marvin A. Sweeney, is the nineteenth published volume in The Forms of Old Testament Literature (FOTL), a series that provides a form-critical analysis of the books and units in the Hebrew Bible. Building on his earlier FOTL volume Isaiah 1-39, Sweeney here presents his analysis of Isaiah 40-66 within both the synchronic literary form of Isaiah and the diachronic history of its composition. In keeping with the methodology and goals of the FOTL series, Isaiah 40-66 offers detailed examinations of the formal structure of the chapters covered; the genres that function within these chapters; the literary, historical, and social settings of the text; and the overall interpretation of Isaiah 40-66 and its constituent textual units. Including a glossary of the genres and formulas discussed, this commentary will be a useful resource to anyone wishing to engage more deeply with this central book in the Hebrew Bible.
