The Prophets

Abstract

The Prophets Christopher T. Begg and Rhiannon Graybill 2079. [Isaiah 6–12] H. G. M. Williamson, Isaiah 1–27, vol. 2: Commentary on Isaiah 6–12 (ICC; London/New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018). Pp. lxi + 740. $114. ISBN 978-0-5760-3059-7. W.’s projected three-volume commentary on Isaiah 1–27—a replacement for G. B. Gray’s one volume, 1912 commentary on the same segment in the ICC series—continues its stately progress toward completion: vol. 1 on Isaiah 1–5 was published in 2006; this second volume on chaps. 6–12 appears 12 years later; and now all that remains to be done are chaps. 13–27 in vol. 3. In the introduction to the present volume, W. briefly sketches his perspective on Isaiah 6–12 in both its synchronic and diachronic dimensions. Synchronically, the segment shows itself to be a well-delimited and well-organized unit in which an introduction (6:1–13) and conclusion (12:1–6) frame an intervening body of material wherein words of doom and of hope alternate on a regular basis. Diachronically, W. views the extant segment as the result of a long process of growth in which words of Isaiah himself (or of his time), e.g., chaps. 6* and 8*, underwent two major redactions, one in the later exilic period, the other sometime after this, as well as repeated small-scale glossings and supplementations. In the commentary proper, W. divides Isaiah 6–12 into 22 component units for each of which he provides a translation, extensive text-critical and translational annotations, as well as a detailed exegesis that addresses both general questions about the unit (e.g., literary form, structure, dating, authorship, etc.) and the interpretation of its individual verses. The footnotes that accompany W.’s text demonstrate his extraordinary control of millennia’s worth of study of one of the Bible’s most influential books. OTA wishes W. every success in bringing this capstone to his distinguished scholarly career to completion (cf. Zech 4:7).—C.T.B. 2080. [Jeremiah; Lamentations; Reformation-era commentaries] J. Jeffrey Tyler (ed.), Reformation Commentary on Scripture XI: Jeremiah, Lamentations (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2018). Pp. lxvii + 609. $59. ISBN 978-0-8308-2961-3. This volume is an entry in a projected 28-volume series that aims to provide selections from the comments and commentaries of a wide range of Reformation-era figures on all the books (OT and NT) of the Protestant biblical canon. The volume’s front matter comprises acknowledgments, abbreviations, a guide to using the commentary, a general introduction to the series overall, and an introduction to the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations and the Reformers’ varied treatments of and approaches to these. There follows, [End Page 729] as the heart of the volume, sections labeled respectively “Commentary on Jeremiah” and “Commentary on Lamentations.” The format used for these commentaries features a reproduction of the complete text of the two books (following the translation of the English Standard Version) broken down into their constituent, content-based pericopes to which are appended, at the lower portion of the page, remarks by various Reform-era figures on the pericope in question. Rounding off the volume are a “Map of Europe at the Time of the Reformation,” a “Timeline of the Reformation,” “Biographical Sketches of Reformation-Era Figures and Works,” a list of sources used for compiling the preceding biographical sketches, a general bibliography, and indexes of authors and writings, topics, and Scripture.—C.T.B. 2081. [Daniel] Roberto Reggi and Marco Settembrini (eds.), Daniele (La Bibbia Quadriforme; Bologna: EDB, 2018). Pp. 114. Paper €13.50. ISBN 978-88-10-82137-4. This volume provides Italian-language Bible readers with an introductory-level tool for study of the Book of Daniel in its Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek versions. Pursuant to that end, R. and S. give, back-to-back, the MT and the Theodotion and LXX texts of the book, in each case supplying a deliberately literal interlinear Italian translation of the given version at well. At the foot of each page one finds on the right side of the page...