Isaiah 1–66: Recent General Studies

I.    General introductory presentations

Berges, U., Jesaja: das Buch und der Prophet (Biblische Gestalten, 22; Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2010); = Isaías: el profeta y el libro (Estudios Bíblicos; Estella: Verbo Divino, 2011).

Jüngling, H.-W., "Das Buch Jesaja", in E. Zenger – C. Frevel (eds.), Einleitung in das Alte Testament. 8., vollständig überarbeitete Auflage, herausgegeben von Christian Frevel (Kohlhammer-Studienbücher Theologie 1,1; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2012) 521-547. The Italian translation was based on the 5th German edition (2004): "Il libro di Isaia", in E. Zenger (ed.), Introduzione all'Antico Testamento (Brescia: Queriniana, 2005) 648-683.

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

Stromberg, J., An Introduction to the Study of Isaiah (T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies; New York & London: T & T Clark International, 2011).

Vermeylen, J., "Ésaïe", in T. Römer – J.-D. Macchi – C. Nihan (eds.), Introduction à l'Ancien Testament. Seconde édition entièrement révisée et substantiellement augmentée (Le Monde de la Bible, 49; Genève: Labor et Fides, 2009) 410-425. For translations (Italian and Spanish) of the first French edition of 2004 see here.

II.    History of interpretation, current tendencies in research, and bibliographies

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.

Berges, U., "The Book of Isaiah as Isaiah's Book: The Latest Developments in the Research of the Prophets", OTE 23 (2010) 549-573.

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).

Hauser, A. J. (ed.), "Bibliography on Isaiah", in A. J. Hauser (ed.), Recent Research on the Major Prophets (Recent Research in Biblical Studies, 1; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008) 278-302.

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

Melugin, R. F., "Isaiah 40-66 in Research: The 'Unity' Movement", in A. J. Hauser (ed.), Recent Research on the Major Prophets (Recent Research in Biblical Studies, 1; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008) 141-194.

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. Reprinted in A. J. Hauser (ed.), Recent Research on the Major Prophets (Recent Research in Biblical Studies, 1; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008) 78-92.

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).

Wieringen, A. L. H. M. – A. van der Woude (eds.), 'Enlarge the Site of Your Tent': The City as Unifying Theme in Isaiah (OTS 58; Leiden: Brill, 2010).

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

Baltzer, K., "The Book of Isaiah", HTR 103 (2010) 261-270.

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).

Ferry, J., Isaïe: "comme les mots d'un livre scellé..." (Is 29,11) (LD 221; Paris: Cerf, 2008).

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.

Hrobon, B., Ethical Dimension of Cult in the Book of Isaiah (BZAW 418; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010).

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).

Landy, F., "Exile in the Book of Isaiah", in E. Ben Zvi – C. Levin (eds.), The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and Its Historical Contexts (BZAW 404; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010) 241-256.

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

MacInnes, J., "A Methodological Reflection on Unified Readings of Isaiah", Colloquium 42 (2010) 67-84. ["Colloquium: The Australia and New Zealand Theological Review": Sydney]

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).

Stromberg, J., Isaiah After Exile. The Author of Third Isaiah as Reader and Redactor of the Book (Oxford Theological Monographs; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

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.

Uhlig, T., The Theme of Hardening in the Book of Isaiah. An Analysis of Communicative Action (FAT II/39; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009).

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.

Vermeylen, J., "Isaïe le visionnaire: la montée vers l'accomplissement de l'ordre du monde dans le livre d'Isaïe", in J. Vermeylen (ed.), Les prophètes de la Bible et la fin des temps: XXIIIe congrès de l'Association catholique française pour l'étude de la Bible (Lille, 24-27 août 2009) (LD 240; Paris: Cerf, 2010) 17-71.

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