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"Judah sat in a position with which the Christian church can identify, because we have been waiting for two millenia for the fulfillment of promises ... we are able to wait, because we have grounds for trusting the one who made the promises, and because we see recurrent partial fulfillments of them."

Amen!

"Isaiah 53 is not a prophecy of the Messiah but a portrait of how Yahweh's servant-prophet becomes the means of Israel's personal renewal, and of the nations' coming to acknowledge Yahweh." (72)

wway to ignore Acts 8:34-35...

He pretty clearly rejects impassibility.

He takes all the births from Isaiah 7 to 9 as not messianic but fulfilled exclusively in the time of Isaiah. Boo!

However he does have some good insight on the Hebrew in chapter. 5

Im not happy about Goldingay's acceptance of multiple authors of Isaiah, but its a good practice to read someone you disagree with. I do agree with his thesis that Isaiah was a collection of sermons/prophecies that were organized by a single mind. The clear structure of the book manifests this.