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Isaiah's Political Message: An Appraisal of His Alleged Social Critique

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 15.6 x 23.2 x 1.3 cm

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Olof Backersten presents an attempt to call into question the scholarly consensus that Isaiah 1-39 contains a social-critical discourse, i.e. passages where the Jerusalemite elite is condemned for their complacent attitudes, their decadent life-style, and their more or less systematic oppression of the poor. He argues that the texts that have been proffered as proofs belong instead, with surprisingly few although notable exceptions, to a foreign-political discourse where the target for the critique is Judah's decision to rebel against Assyria (not social injustice). The author also makes a novel suggestion concerning why and how a social-critical outlook has been related to a foreign-political discourse in the book of Isaiah as a whole.

  • Title

    Isaiah's Political Message: An Appraisal of His Alleged Social Critique

  • Author

    Olof Backersten

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    May 2008

  • Weight

    373g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.2 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161496370

  • ISBN-10

    316149637X

  • Eden Code

    4930471