J. Alec Motyer's major commentary on Isaiah, the fruit of more than thirty years teaching the book. 544 pages, built on the Hebrew but readable without it. Read more.
Among the Old Testament prophets none equals Isaiah for brilliance of style and metaphor, for its arresting vision of the Holy One of Israel, or for its kaleidoscopic picture of God's future restoration of Israel and the world. After more than three decades of studying and teaching the book, Alec Motyer brings the grammatical, historical, structural, literary and theological dimensions of the text together in a single volume.
Motyer organizes Isaiah around three messianic portraits - the King in chapters 1 to 37, the Servant in 38 to 55, and the Anointed Conqueror in 56 to 66 - and traces three recurring themes throughout: messianic hope, the motif of the city, and the theology of the Holy One of Israel. The exposition is based on the Hebrew text but accommodates readers with no working knowledge of Hebrew, and it keeps asking what the book means for Christians now. 544 pages, IVP Academic.
