Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface xi
4. A Personal Tribute to Hallvard Hagelia 1
5. From Gesenius to Childs: Reading the Book of Isaiah with Two Giants 13
6. Spirit, Creation and Redemption in Isaiah 31
7. What Kind of God Is Portrayed in Isaiah 5:1–7? 53
8. Isaiah and Africa 69
9. The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) and Material Philology: Preliminary Observations and A Proposal 91
10. Did Isaiah Really See God? The Ancient Discussion About Isaiah 6:1 115
11. Zion, Eden and Temple in the Book of Isaiah 137
12. ‘Do Not Fear, for I Am with You’: The Use of Isaiah 41:10 in Times of Incurable Illness 157
13. Where are the Gods of … ? Where are the Kings of … ? Place Names as a Clue to the Dating of Passages in the Books of Isaiah and Second Kings 183
14. ‘Then the Wilderness Shall Bloom like a Rosy Bower’: N. F. S Grundtvig and Isaiah 35 193
15. ‘For I am about to Create New Heavens and a New Earth’: Prophecy and Torah in Isaiah 65:17–25 209
16. The Enigmatic Figure of the ‘Servant of the Lord’: Observations on the Relationship Between the ‘Servant of the Lord’ in Isaiah 40–55 and Other Salvific Figures in the Hebrew Bible 231
17. List of Contributors 283