Isaiah 28-39. (Briefly Noted).

Isaiah 28-39. By Hans Wildberger. Translated by Thomas H. Trapp (Fortress, $75). W.'s massive, three-volume commentary was published in German between 1965 and 1982 and represents careful and exhaustive research. Trapp, of Concordia College, St. Paul, has spent the last fifteen years translating the 1,753 pages of this commentary into English and updating the bibliography. He even typeset the present volume and deserves high praise for a fantastic achievement! The two decades since W. completed his work have seen a revolution in the study of Isaiah, for while scholars still recognize a number of different hands in the book, they have also detected numerous ways in which the whole book has been reshaped into its present unity. W. represents the harvest of the twentieth century; our new century presents us in many ways with a new Isaiah. We can profit much from both readings.