Isaiah

Verse-by-Verse Commentaries:

Brevard S. Childs, Isaiah (OTL), Westminster, 2000.
John N. Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah (NICOT), Eerdmans, 1986, 1998. (two vols.)
Marvin A. Sweeney, Isaiah 1-39 With an Introduction to Prophetic Literature (FOTL, xvi), Eerdmans, 1996.***1/2
John D. W. Watts, Isaiah (Word Biblical Commentary), Word Books, 1987. (two vols.) ****
Edward J. Young, Isaiah (NICOT), Eerdmans, 1965. (three vols.) ****
Joel Youngblood, Isaiah, Wipf & Stock, 1998.

Monographs, Compilations, and Studies:

David J. A. Clines, I, He, We, and They: A Literary Approach to Isaiah 53 (JSOT Sup, 1), Sheffield Academic, 1976.
Edgar W. Conrad, Reading Isaiah (Overtures in Biblical Theology), Fortress, 1991.
Ulrich E. Simon, A Theology of Salvation: A Commentary on Isaiah 40-55, SPCK, 1953.
Yehoshua Gitay, Isaiah and His Audience: The Structure and Meaning of Isaiah 1-12 (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 30), Van Gorcum, 1991.
________ Prophecy and Persuasion: A Study of Isaiah 40-48, Linguistica Biblica, 1981.
Marjo C. A. Korpel and Johannes C. DeMoor, The Structure of Classical Hebrew Poetry: Isaiah 40-55 (Oudtestamentische Studien, 41),
____ Brill Academic, 1998.
Wonsuk Ma, Until the Spirit Comes: The Spirit of God in the Book of Isaiah, Sheffield Academic, 1999.
Roy F. Melugin and M. A. Sweeney (eds.), New Visions of Isaiah (JSOT Supplement, 214), Sheffield Academic Press, 1996. (compilation)
a valuable compendium of recent scholarship, several representative essays, click for a list of the most helpful essays essays.

Dirk H. Odendaal, The Eschatological Expectation of Isaiah 40–66 with Special Reference to Israel and the Nations, Presbyterian & Reformed,
____ 1970.
J. T. A. G. M. van Ruiten, and Marc Vervenne (eds.), Studies in the Book of Isaiah: Festschrift Willem A M Beuken (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum
____ theologicarum Lovaniensium, 132), Peeters, 1997.
another valuable, up-to-date compilation, several representative essays, click for a list of the most helpful essays essays.

Barry Webb, The Message of Isaiah: On Eagle's Wings (The Bible Speaks Today), Inter-Varsity, 1997.

Articles, Essays, and Sermons:

Luis Alonso-Schökel, "Isaiah" in The Literary Guide to the Bible (ed. R. Alter and F. Kermode), Belknap Press, 1987: 165-183.
K. Bailey, " 'Inverted Parallelisms' and 'Encased Parables' in Isaiah and their Significance for Old and New Testament Translation
____ and Interpretation" in Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategies in the Hebrew Bible (ed. L. J. de Regt, Jan de Waard,
____ and J. P. Fokkelman), Eisenbrauns, 1996: 14-30.
Gregory K. Beale, "Isaiah 6:9-13: A Retributive Taunt Against Idolatry," Vetus Testamentum 41 (1991): 257-78.
Ronald L. Bergey, "The Rhetorical Role of Reiteration in the Suffering Servant Poem (Isa 52:13--53:12)," JETS 40 (1997): 177-88.
Adele Berlin, "Isaiah 40:4 Etymological and Poetic Considerations," Hebrew Annual Review 3 (1979): 1-6.
Louis T. Brodie, "The Children and the Prince: the Structure, Nature and Date of Isaiah 6-12," BTB 9 (1979): 27-31.
Anthony R. Ceresko, "The Rhetorical Strategy of the Fourth Servant Song," CBQ 56 (1994): 42-55.
Richard J. Clifford, "The Unity of the Book of Isaiah and Its Cosmogonic Language," CBQ 55 (1993): 1-17.
Charles G. Dennison, "Isaiah's Christmas Children: Shear-Jashub," Kerux 14.3 (Dec 1999): 36-42.
James T. Dennison Jr., "A Short Note on the Structure of Isaiah 1," Kerux 4.1 (May 1989).
________ "A Tale of Two Cities: Isaiah and Worship: Isaiah 1:1-31; 6:1-8," Kerux 4.2 (Sept 1989).
________ "The Righteous King, the Just Kingdom: Isaiah 32:1-3," Kerux 5.3 (Dec 1990).
Thomas J. Finley and George Payton, "A Discourse Analysis of Isaiah 7-12," Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics 6.4 (1993): 317-335.
Jan P. Fokkelman, "A Stylistic Analysis of Isaiah 40:1-11" in Remembering All the Way: A Collection of Old Testament Studies (Oudtestamentische
____ Studiën, 21) ed. Bertril Albrektson et al, E. J. Brill, 1981: 68-90.
________ "The Cyrus Oracle (Isaiah 44,24-45,7) From the Perspectives of Syntax, Versification and Structure" in Studies in the Book of Isaiah:
____ Festschrift Willem A M Beuken (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium, 132) ed. J. T. A. G. M. van Ruiten, and Marc Vervenne,
____ Peeters, 1997: 303-323.
Yehoshua Gitay, "Reflections on the Study of the Prophetic Discourse: The Question of Isaiah 1:2-20," Vetus Testamentum 33 (1983): 207-221.
________ "Why Metaphors?: A Study of the Texture of Isaiah" in Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah, vol 1 (ed. C. Broyles, et al), 1997: 57-65.
________ "The Effectiveness of Isaiah's Speech," Jewish Quarterly Review 75.2 (1984): 162-172.
Erling Hammershaimb, "Immanuel Sign," Studia Theologica 3 (1951): 124-142.
David Inks, "Come Out of Babylon: Isaiah 52:11," Kerux 6.1 (May 1991).
Meredith G. Kline, "Death, Leviathan, and Martyrs: Isaiah 24:1-27:1" in A Tribute to Gleason Archer (ed. W. Kaiser Jr. and R. Youngblood
____ Moody, 1986: 229-249.
F. Duane Lindsey, "Isaiah’s Songs of the Servant," BSac 139 (1982): 12-31; 129-145; 216-229; 312-329; 140 (1983): 21-40. (five parts) ****
Eugene H. Merrill, "Isaiah 40-55 As Anti-Babylonian Polemic," GTJ 8 (1987): 3-18.
Bruce R. Reichenbach, "By His Stripes We Are Healed," JETS 41 (1998): 551-560.
Marvin A. Sweeney, "A Philological and Form-critical Reevaluation of Isaiah 8:16-9:6" in Hebrew Annual Review, vol 14 (ed. T. Lewis), 1994: 215-231.
________ "Structure and Redaction in Isaiah 2-4" in Hebrew Annual Review, vol 11 (ed. R Ahroni), 1987: 407-422.
Geerhardus Vos, "Our Holy and Glorious God (Isaiah 57:15)" in Grace and Glory, Banner of Truth, 1996.
Rikki E. Watts, "Consolation or Confrontation? Isaiah 40-55 and the Delay of the New Exodus," Tyndale Bulletin 41 (1990): 31-59.
Barry Webb, "Zion in Transformation: a Literary Approach to Isaiah" in The Bible in Three Dimensions: Essays in Celebration of Forty
____ Years of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield (JSOT Supplement, 87) [ed. D. J. A. Clines, S. Fowl, and S. E. Porter],
____ Sheffield Academic, 1990: 65-84.
John E. Worgul, "The Quatrain in Isaianic Poetry," GTJ 11 (1990): 187-204.

More Commentaries:

Roland E. Clements, Isaiah 1-39 (New Century), Eerdmans, 1980.
Richard J. Clifford, Fair Spoken and Persuading: An Interpretation of Second Isaiah, Paulist Press, 1984.
Paul D. Hanson, Isaiah 40-66 (Interpretation), Westminster John Knox, 1995.
Otto Kaiser, Isaiah 1-12 (OTL), Westminster John Knox, 1983.
________ Isaiah 13-39 (OTL), Westminster John Knox, 1974.
Derek Kidner, "Isaiah" in The New Bible Commentary, Eerdmans, 1967: 588-625.
George A. F. Knight, Servant Theology: A Commentary on the Book of Isaiah 40-55 (ITC), Eerdmans, 1984.
________ The New Israel: A Commentary on the Book of Isaiah 56-66 (ITC), Eerdmans, 1985.
Alec Motyer, Isaiah (Tyndale), Inter Varsity, 1999.
Jan Ridderbos (tr. John Vriend), Isaiah (Bible Student), Zondervan, 1985.
Christopher R. Seitz, Isaiah 1-39, (Interpretation), Westminster John Knox, 1993.
_______ "Isaiah 40-66" in New Interpreter's Bible, Abingdon, .
Gene M. Tucker, "Isaiah 1-39" in New Interpreter's Bible, Abingdon, .
Claus Westermann, Isaiah 40-66: A Commentary (OTL), Westminster John Knox, 1995.
R. Norman Whybray, Isaiah 40-66 (New Century), Eerdmans, 1980.
Herbert Wolf, Interpreting Isaiah: The Suffering and Glory of the Messiah, Zondervan, 1985.

More Monographs:

Oswald T. Allis, The Unity of Isaiah, Presbyterian & Reformed, 1950.
more apologetical than exegetical.

Andrew H. Bartelt, The Book Around Immanuel: Style and Structure in Isaiah 2-12 (Biblical and Judaic Studies, 4), Eisenbrauns, 1996.
P. A. H. de Boer, Second Isaiah's Message (Oudetestament Studiën, 11), E. J. Brill, 1956.
Brevard S. Childs, Isaiah and the Assyrian Crisis, Alec R. Allenson, 1967.
Roland E. Clements, Isaiah and the Deliverance of Jerusalem (JSOT Sup, 13), Sheffield Academic, 1980.
Katheryn Pfisterer Darr, Isaiah's Vision and the Family of God (Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation), Westminster John Knox, 1994.
Seth Erlandsson, Burden of Babylon: A Study of Isaiah 13-2 to 14-23 (Coniectanea Biblica: Old Testament Series, 4), Geerlup, 1970.
Edward E. Hindson, Isaiah's Immanuel: A Sign of His Times or the Sign of the Ages, Baker , 1979.
Dan G. Johnson, From Chaos to Restoration: An Integrative Reading of Isaiah 24-27 (JSOT Supplement, 61), Sheffield Academic Press, 1988.
Antti Laato, About Zion I Will Not Be Silent:The Book of Isaiah as an Ideological Unity (Coniectanea Biblica: Old Testament, ), Almqvist & Wiksell,
____ 1998.
________ The Servant of YHWH and Cyrus: A Reinterpretation of the Exilic Messianic Programme in Isaiah 40-55 (Coniectanea Biblica:
____ Old Testament, 35), Almqvist & Wiksell, 1992.
Peter D. Miscall, Isaiah 34-35: A Nightmare / A Dream (JSOT Sup, 281), Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.
Kirsten Nielsen, There is Hope for a Tree: The Tree as Metaphor in Isaiah (JSOT Supplement, 65), Sheffield Academic, 1989.
James D. Smart, History and Theology in Second Isaiah (chps 35, 40-66), Epworth Press, 1967.
Christopher R. Seitz, Zion's Final Destiny: The Development of the Book of Isaiah: A Reassessment of Isaiah 36-39, Augsburg Fortress, 1991.
Carroll Stuhlmueller, Creative Redemption in Deutero-Isaiah (Analecta Biblica, 43), Biblical Institute, 1970.
Bertil Wiklander, Prophecy as Literature: A Text-Linguistic and Rhetorical Approach to Isaiah 2-4 (Coniectanea Biblica: Old Testament Series, 22),
____ Liber Förlag, 1984.
H. G. M. Williamson, The Book Called Isaiah: Deutero-Isaiah's Role in Composition and Redaction, Clarendon Press, 1994.

More Articles / Essays:

Ronald Bergey, "The Rhetorical Role of Reiteration in the Suffering Servant Poem (Isa 52:13-53:12)," JETS 40 (1997): 177-188.
Wim Beuken, "The Syntactical Structure of Isa 4:2-6: A Computer Assisted Analysis" in A Prophet on the Screen: Computerized Description and
____ Literary Interpretation of Isaianic Texts (Applicatio, 9) ed. Eep Talstra & A. L. H. M. van Wieringen), VU University Press, 1992: .
Walter Brueggeman, "Unity and Dynamic in the Isaiah Tradition," JSOT 29 (1984): 89-107.
Robert B. Chisholm Jr. "Structure, Style, and the Prophetic Message: An Analysis of Isaiah 5:8-30," BSac 143 (1986): 46-59.
Roland E. Clements, "Beyond Tradition History: Deutero-Isaianic Development of First Isaiah's Themes," JSOT 31 (1985): 95-113.
E. W. Conrad, "The Royal Narratives and the Structure of the Book of Isaiah," JSOT 41 (1988): 67-81.
Lyle M. Eslinger, "The Infinite in a Finate Organical Perception (Isa 6:1-5)," VT 45 (1995): 145-73.
Craig A. Evans, "Isaiah 6:9-13 in the Context of Isaiah's Theology," JETS 29 (1986): 139-46.
________ "The Unity and Parallel Structure of Isaiah," VT 38 (1988): 129-147.
F. Charles Fensham, "A Fresh Look at Isaiah 7:7-9" in Perspectives on Language and Text: Essays & Poems in Honor of Francis I. Andersen
____ (ed. E. Conrad and E. Newing), Eisenbrauns, 1987: 11-17.
Yehoshua Gitay, "Reflections on the Study of the Prophetic Discourse: The Question of Isaiah 1:2-20," Vetus Testamentum 33 (1983): 207-221.
________ "Isaiah and His Audience," Prooftexts 3 (1983): 223-230.
Donald E. Gowan, "Isaiah 6:1-8," Interpretation 45 (1991): 172-175.
Norman K. Gottwald, "Immanuel as the Prophet's Son," Vetus Testamentum 8 (1958): 36-47.
Henk W. M. van Grol, "Clause, Sentence, and Versification: A Theoretical and Practical Exploration of the Role of Syntax in Versification, with Isaiah
____ 5:1-7 as Example" in A Prophet on the Screen: Computerized Description and Literary Interpretation of Isaianic Texts (Applicatio, 9)
____ ed. Eep Talstra & A. L. H. M. van Wieringen), VU University Press, 1992: 70-117.
Jesper Hogenhaven, "On the Structure and Meaning of Isaiah 8:23b," Vetus Testamentum 37 (1987): 218-221.
Hubert Irsigler, "Speech Acts and Intentions in the 'Song of the Vineyard' Isaiah 5:1-6," Old Testament Essays 10 (1997): 39-68.
Knud Jeppesen, "From 'You, My Servant' to 'the Hand of the Lord is with My Servants': A Discussion of Isaiah 40-66," SJOT 1 (1990): 113-29.
Allan A. MacRae, "The Servant of the Lord in Isaiah," BSac 121 (1964): 125-132; 218-227. (two parts)
Eugene H. Merrill, "Survey of a Century of Studies on Isaiah 40–55, Part 1: The Literary Character of Isaiah 40–55," BSac144 (1987): 24-43.
________ "The Literary Character of Isaiah 40-55, Part 2: Literary Genres in Isaiah 40-55," BSac 144 (1987): 144-156.
Kirsten Nielsen, "Isa 6:1-8:18 as Dramatic Writing," Studia Theologica 40 (1986): 1-16.
Willem S. Prinsloo, "Isaiah 14:12-15: Humiliation, Hubris, Humiliation," Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 93.3 (1981): 432-438.
Paul R. Raabe, "The Effect of Repetition in the Suffering Servant Song," JBL 103 (1984): 77-81.
Robert L. Reymond, "Who is the Almh of Isaiah 7:14?" Presbyterion 15 (1989): 1-15.
J. J. M. Roberts, "Double Entendre in First Isaiah," CBQ 54 (1992): 39-48.
________ "Isaiah and His Children" in Biblical and Related Studies Presented to Samuel Iwry (ed. A. Kort and S. Morschauser), Eisenbrauns,
____ 1985: 193-203.
J. T. A. G. M. van Ruiten, "The Role of Syntax in the Versification of Is 65:13-25" in A Prophet on the Screen: Computerized Description and
____ Literary Interpretation of Isaianic Texts (Applicatio, 9) ed. Eep Talstra & A. L. H. M. van Wieringen), VU University Press, 1992: .
R. B. Y. Scott, "The Literary Structure of Isaiah's Oracles" in Studies in Old Testament Prophecy (ed. H. H. Rowley), T & T Clark, 1946: 175-186.
Christopher R. Seitz, "How is the Prophet Isaiah Present in the Latter Half of the Book? The Logic of Chapters 40-66 within the the Book
____ of Isaiah," JBL 115 (1996): 219-240.
________ "The Divine Council: Temporal Transition and New Prophecy in the Book of Isaiah," JBL 109 (1990): 229-247.
Marvin A. Sweeney, "Structure and Redaction in Isaiah 2-4," HAR 11 (1987): 407-422.
________ "Textual Citations in Isaiah 24-27," JBL 107 (1988): 39-52.
________ "Prophetic Exegesis in Isaiah 65-66" in Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah, vol. 1 (ed. C. Broyles, et al), 1997: 455-474.
________ "Jesse's New Shoot in Isaiah 11: A Josianic Reading of the Prophet Isaiah" in A Gift of God in Due Season (ed. R. Weis, et al), 1996: 103-118.
________ "Sargon's Threat against Jerusalem in Isaiah 10,27-32," Biblica 75.4 (1994): 457-470.
________ "Textual Citations in Isaiah 24-27: Toward an Understanding of the Redactional Function of chapters 24-27 in the Book of Isaiah," JBL 107
____ (1988): 39-52.
________ "New Gleanings from an old Vineyard: Isaiah 27 Reconsidered" in Early Jewish and Christian Exegesis (ed. C. A. Evans & W. Stinespring),
____ 1987: 51-66.
Robert Ivan Vasholz, "Isaiah and Ahaz: A Brief History of Crisis in Isaiah 7 and 8," Presbyterion 13 (1987): 79-84.
John H. Walton, "Isa 7:14: What's In a Name?," JETS 30 (1987): 289-306.
Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen, "Parallel Clauses between Third and Second Isaiah: A New Kind of Computer-Concordance," Biblische Notizen 82
____ (1996): 21-26.
________ "Analogies between Second and Third Isaiah: A Computer Assisted Analysis" in Bible et informatique (ed. W. Bader, et al), 629-642.
H. G. M. Williamson, "Isaiah xi, 11-16 and the Redaction of Isaiah" in Congress Volume: Paris 1992 (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 61),
____ E. J. Brill, 1995: 343-357.
________ "The Messianic Texts in Isaiah 1-39" in King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East (ed. J. Day),1998: 238-270.
________ "Hezekiah and the Temple" in Texts, Temples, and Traditions (ed. M. V. Fox, et al), Eisenbrauns, 1996: 47-52.
________ "Sound, Sense and Language in Isaiah 24-27," Journal of Jewish Studies 46 (1995): 1-9.
________ "Isaiah and the Wise" in Wisdom in Ancient Israel (ed. J. Day, et al), 1995: 133-141.
________ "First and Last in Isaiah" in Of Prophets' Visions and the Wisdom of Sages (ed. H. McKay, et al), 1993: 95-108.
________ "Laments at the Destroyed Temple: Excavating the Biblical Text Teveals Ancient Jewish Prayers," Bible Review 6 (1990): 12-17, 44.
N. A. van Uchelen, "Isaiah 1:9: Text and Context" in Remembering All the Way: A Collection of Old Testament Studies (Oudtestamentische
____ Studiën, 21) ed. Bertril Albrektson et al, E. J. Brill, 1981: 155-163.
Edward J. Young, "The Immanuel Prophecy: Isaiah 7:14-16," WTJ 15 (1953): 97-124; 16 (1954): 23- 50.

Still More Monographs:

Peter D. Miscall, Isaiah (Readings: A New Biblical Commentary), JSOT Press, 1993.
radical mainline; borders on profane; a few scattered structural (and post-structural) insights.

J. F. A. Sawyer, The Fifth Gospel: Isaiah in the History of Christianity, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
not as suggestive as the title suggests; focuses on history of interpretation issues, but not on the best of the historical traditions.

Marvin A. Sweeney, Isaiah 1-4 and the Post-Exilic Understanding of the Isaianic Tradition (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche
____ Wissenschaft, 171), Walter de Gruyter, 1988.

Still More Articles:

Michael Treschow, "The Comfort of Truth," Crux 34 (1998): 12-24.

Robert P. Carroll, "Blindsight and the Vision Thing: Blindness and Insight in the Book of Isaiah" in Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah, vol 1 (ed. C. Broyles, et al), 1997: 79-93.

J. Kenneth Kuntz, "The Form, Location, and Function of Rhetorical Questions in Deutero-Isaiah" in Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah, vol 1 (ed. C. Broyles, et al), 1997: 121-141.

Joseph Blenkinsopp, "The Servant and the Dervants in Isaiah and the Formation of the Book" in Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah, vol 1 (ed. C. Broyles, et al), 1997: 155-175.

John N. Oswalt, "Righteousness in Isaiah: A Study of the Function of Chapters 56-66 in the Present Structure of the Book" in Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah, vol 1 (ed. C. Broyles, et al), 1997: 177-191.

John T. Willis, "Isaiah 2:2-5 and the Psalms of Zion" in Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah, vol 1 (ed. C. Broyles, et al), 1997: 295-316.

Willem A. M. Beuken, "Isaiah 30: A Prophetic Oracle Transmitted in Two Successive Paradigms" in Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah, vol 1 (ed. C. Broyles, et al), 1997: 369-397.

Introduction:

Marvin A. Sweeney, "The Book of Isaiah in Recent Research," Currents in Research: Biblical Studies 1 (1993): 141-162.

Not Yet Reviewed:

Gregory J. Polan, "Still More Signs of Unity in the Book of Isaiah: The Significance of Third Isaiah" in Society of Biblical Literature (ed. E. Lovering, Jr), 1997: 224-233.

Knut Holter, Second Isaiah's Idol-Fabrication Passages (Beiträge zur biblischen Exegese und Theologie, 28), Peter Lang, 1995.