Isaiah 1–66: Recent General Studies

I.    General introductory presentations

Jüngling, H.-W., "Das Buch Jesaja", in E. Zenger et al., Einleitung in das Alte Testament (Kohlhammer-Studienbücher Theologie 1,1; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, ⁵2004) 427-451; = Introduzione all'Antico Testamento (Brescia: Queriniana, 2005) 648-683.

Schmid, K., "Jesaja / Jesajabuch", RGG⁴ 4 (2001) 451-456.

Vermeylen, J., "Esaïe", in T. Römer – J.-D. Macchi – C. Nihan (eds.), Introduction à l'Ancien Testament (Le Monde de la Bible, 49; Genève: Labor et Fides, 2004) 329-344; = Guida di lettura all'Antico Testamento (Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane, 2007) 301-314.

II.    History of interpretation and current tendencies in the study of Isaiah

Becker, U., "Tendenzen der Jesajaforschung 1998–2007", TRu 74 (2009) 96-128.

Berges, U., "Das Jesajabuch als Jesajas Buch. Zu neuesten Entwicklungen in der Prophetenforschung", TRev 104 (2008) 3-14.

Blenkinsopp, J., Unsealing the Sealed Book: Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006).

Cassel, J. D., "Patristic Interpretation of Isaiah", in C. Mathews McGinnis – P. K. Tull (eds.), "As Those Who Are Taught": The Interpretation of Isaiah from the LXX to the SBL (SBLSymS 27; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006) 145-169.

Childs, B. S., The Struggle to Understand Isaiah as Christian Scripture (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004).

Firth, D. G. – H. G. M. Williamson (eds.), Interpreting Isaiah: Issues and Approaches (Nottingham: Apollos; Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2009).

Höffken, P., Jesaja. Der Stand der theologischen Diskussion (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2004).

Metzenthin, C., Jesaja-Auslegung in Qumran (ATANT 98; Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2010).

Sweeney, M. A., "The Book of Isaiah in Recent Research", CR:BS 1 (1993) 141-162.

Tate, M. E., "The Book of Isaiah in Recent Study", in J. W. Watts – P. R. House (eds.), Forming Prophetic Literature (JSOTSup 235; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) 22-56.

Wilken, R. L. (ed.), Isaiah: Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007).

III.    Collections of essays on Isaiah

Broyles, C. C. – C. A. Evans (eds.), Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah: Studies of an Interpretive Tradition (VTSup 70/1-2; Leiden: Brill, 1997).

Everson, A. J. – H. C. P. Kim (eds.), The Desert Will Bloom: Poetic Visions in Isaiah (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 4; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009).

Melugin, R. F. – M. A. Sweeney (eds.), New Visions of Isaiah (JSOTSup 214; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).

Ruiten, J. van – M. Vervenne (eds.), Studies in the Book of Isaiah: Festschrift Willem A.M. Beuken (BETL 132; Leuven: Peeters, 1997).

Vermeylen, J. (ed.), The Book of Isaiah. Le Livre d'Isaïe. Les oracles et leurs relectures; unité et complexité de l'ouvrage (BETL 81; Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1989).

IV.    Synchronic and diachronic studies on the composition of Isa 1–66 as a whole

Berges, U., Das Buch Jesaja: Komposition und Endgestalt (HBS 16; Freiburg: Herder, 1998).

Beuken, W. A. M., "Isaiah Chapters LXV-LXVI: Trito-Isaiah and the Closure of the Book of Isaiah", in J. A. Emerton (ed.), Congress Volume Leuven 1989 (VTSup 43; Leiden: Brill, 1991) 204-221.

Beuken, W. A. M., "The Unity of the Book of Isaiah: Another Attempt at Bridging the Gorge Between Its Two Main Parts", in J. C. Exum – H. G. M. Williamson (eds.), Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J. A. Clines (JSOTSup 373; London: T & T Clark International, 2003) 50-62.

Brueggemann, W., "Unity and Dynamic in the Isaiah Tradition", JSOT 29 (1984) 89-107.

Carr, D. M., "Reaching for Unity in Isaiah", JSOT 57 (1993) 61-80; = [same title], in P. R. Davies (ed.), The Prophets (The Biblical Seminar, 42; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) 164-183.

Carr, D. M., "Reading Isaiah from Beginning (Isaiah 1) to End (Isaiah 65-66): Multiple Modern Possibilities", in R. F. Melugin – M. A. Sweeney (eds.), New Visions of Isaiah (JSOTSup 214; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) 188-218.

Clements, R. E., "The Unity of the Book of Isaiah", Int 36 (1982) 117-129; = [same title], in his Old Testament Prophecy: From Oracles to Canon (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1996) 93-104.

Clements, R. E., "Isaiah: A Book Without an Ending?", JSOT 97 (2002) 109-126.

Conrad, E. W., Reading Isaiah (Overtures in Biblical Theology; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991).

Holman, J., "De kernboodschap van Jesaja. Omvang en betekenis van de inclusie van Jes. 1-2,4 met 65-66", Tijdschrift voor Theologie 36 (1996) 3-17.

Janthial, D., L'oracle de Nathan et l'unité du livre d'Isaïe (BZAW 343; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004).

Lack, R., La Symbolique du Livre d'Isaïe. Essai sur l'image littéraire comme élément de structuration (AnBib 59; Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1973).

Lack, R., Letture strutturaliste dell'Antico Testamento (Roma: Borla, 1978).

Liebreich, L. S., "The Compilation of the Book of Isaiah", JQR N.S. 46 (1955-56) 259-277; 47 (1956-57) 114-138.

Melugin, R. F., "The Book of Isaiah and the Construction of Meaning", in C. C. Broyles – C. A. Evans (eds.), Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah: Studies of an Interpretive Tradition (VTSup 70/1; Leiden: Brill, 1997) 39-55.

Miscall, P. D., "Isaiah: New Heavens, New Earth, New Book", in D. Nolan Fewell (ed.), Reading Between Texts. Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible (Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation; Louisville, KY: Westminster / John Knox, 1992) 41-56.

O'Connell, R. H., Concentricity and Continuity: The Literary Structure of Isaiah (JSOTSup 188; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994).

Rendtorff, R., "Zur Komposition des Buches Jesajas", VT 34 (1984) 295-320; = R. Rendtorff, Kanon und Theologie. Vorarbeiten zu einer Theologie des Alten Testaments (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1991) 141-161; = "The Composition of the Book of Isaiah", in R. Rendtorff, Canon and Theology (Overtures to Biblical Theology, 30; Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1993 / Edinburgh: Clark, 1994) 146-169.

Rendtorff, R., "The Book of Isaiah: A Complex Unity. Synchronic and Diachronic Reading", in R. F. Melugin - M. A. Sweeney (eds.), New Visions of Isaiah (JSOTSup 214; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) 32-49.

Steck, O. H., Bereitete Heimkehr. Jesaja 35 als redaktionelle Brücke zwischen dem Ersten und dem Zweiten Jesaja (SBS 121; Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1985).

Tomasino, A. J., "Isaiah 1.1-2.4 and 63-66, and the Composition of the Isaianic Corpus", JSOT 57 (1993) 81-98; = [same title], in P. R. Davies (ed.), The Prophets (The Biblical Seminar, 42; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) 147-163.

Vermeylen, J., "L'unité du livre d'Isaïe", in J. Vermeylen (ed.), The Book of Isaiah. Le Livre d'Isaïe. Les oracles et leurs relectures; unité et complexité de l'ouvrage (BETL 81; Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1989) 11-53.

Wieringen, A. L. H. M. van, The Reader-Oriented Unity of the Book Isaiah (Amsterdamse Cahiers Supplement Series, 6; Vught: Skandalon, 2006)