The latter half of the sixth century BCE found the Jewish community fragmented and under great strife after having been conquered by the Babylonian armies.
What he discovers is a poetic argument for a loving and attentive God and the rightful place of God\'s creatures in the unfolding of history..
Paul Hanson examines the writings of Second and Third Isaiah.
As a response to a growing despair over life in servitude and exile, Isaiah 40-66 was written.
The latter half of the sixth century BCE found the Jewish community fragmented and under great strife after having been conquered by the Babylonian armies