vol. 36, Issue #2

Online Journal Article: "THE FUNCTION OF ISAIAH 24-27" - NEIL O. SKJOLDAL* JETS 36/2 (June 1993) 163-172

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"THE FUNCTION OF ISAIAH 24-27" -
NEIL O. SKJOLDAL*
JETS 36/2 (June 1993) 163-172

EXCERPT:
The interpretive difficulties posed by Isaiah 24-27 remain intact, even
after one hundred years of critical examination. G. W. Anderson's thirty
year-old assessment of the exegetical questions surrounding these chapters is
still correct: "It probably remains true that writers on most of the
critical questions involved may still be divided into two groups: those who
differ from each other and those who hesitate to commit themselves."
Such frustration, however, should not lead to despair. Two of the most
recent treatments of Isaiah 24-27 have shown that the study of these
chapters might indeed be a fruitful field of endeavor when the text is
taken as a unit. My article addresses one of the major questions raised by
a study of Isaiah 24-27—that is, identifying its function.
--from the first page of the article