Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Literary questions
  • Historical questions
  • Deutero-Isaiah's theology
  • Structure: Isaiah 40-55
  • Prologue 40:1-31 "In heaven as on earth"
  • Act 1 41:1
  • 42:13 The beginning of what is to come
  • "The earlier happenings-see, they have come about! But new ones I declare-before they spring up I let you hear of them" (42:9)
  • Act 2 42:14-44:23 Jacob/Israel (again) Yahweh's servant
  • "Yes, Yahweh has redeemed/liberated Jacob and in/through Israel will he glorify himself" (44:23)
  • Act 3 44:24
  • 45:25 The sovereignty of God and earthly rule
  • "Who says to Cyrus: 'my shepherd!' and 'All that I wish he will fulfill ... ' " (44:28)
  • "Only in Yahweh [is there] ... righteousness and strength" (45:24)
  • Act 4 46:1
  • 49:13 The downfall of Babylon
  • "Yes! Yahweh has comforted his people and has compassion on his afflicted [oppressed] ones" (49:13)
  • Act 5 49:14
  • 52:10 The rise of Zion/Jerusalem out of deepest humiliation
  • "All the ends of the earth see the help of our God" (52:10)
  • Act 6 52:11
  • 54:17 Salvation for the servant of God
  • salvation for Zion/Jerusalem
  • "This is the inheritance of Yahweh's servants and their righteousness before me, saying of Yahweh's" (54:17)
  • Epilogue 55:1-13 Festival of the pilgrimage to "the Holy City."