The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah

Christopher B. Hays is the D. Wilson Moore Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, and a Research Associate of the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He is the author of The Origins of Isaiah 24–27 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and Death in the Iron Age II and in First Isaiah (Mohr Siebeck, 2011), and co-author of Isaiah: A Paradigmatic Prophet and His Interpreters (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2022). He co-translated Isaiah for the Common English Bible.

1. Introduction Christopher B. Hays; Part I. The Book of Isaiah Through History: 2. The Book of Isaiah in the Assyrian period Michael Chan; 3. The Book of Isaiah and the Neo-Babylonian period Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer; 4. The Book of Isaiah in the Persian period Lucas Schulte; 5. The Book of Isaiah at Qumran Jesper Høgenhaven; 6. Early versions of Isaiah as translations and interpretations Ronald L. Troxel; 7. The formation of the Book of Isaiah Marvin Sweeney; Part II. Isaiah in Its Cultural World; 8. Ancient Near Eastern prophecy and the study of Isaiah Jonathan Stökl; 9. The Book of Isaiah in the history of Israelite religion Christopher B. Hays; 10. Isaiah and empire Shawn Zelig Aster; 11. Migration in the Book of Isaiah C. L. Crouch; Part III. Isaiah as Literature: 12. Isaiah as poetry J. Blake Couey; 13. Isaiah in intertextual perspective Hyun Chul Paul Kim; 14. Gendered imagery in Isaiah Hanne Løland Levinson; 15. Divine and human plans in the Book of Isaiah J. Todd Hibbard; Part IV. Afterlives of the Book of Isaiah: 16. Theological tensions in the Book of Isaiah Matthew R. Schlimm; 17. The ethical and political vision of Isaiah M. Daniel Carroll R.; 18. Isaiah in the New Testament David Pao; 19. Impressions of Isaiah in classical Rabbinic literature Joshua Ezra Burns; 20. The reception history of Isaiah Brennan Breed.