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Isaiah 13-27 - Concordia Commentary

In a variety of ways, the book of Isaiah proves to be rightly called “the Fifth Gospel.” We hear the voice of Isaiah in chapters 13–27 of his book: his penetrating indictments of the unbridled arrogance of the nations, his terrifying threats of the coming Day of Judgment from the God of hosts, his encouraging promises of the coming Davidic King who will be swift to do righteousness, his promises of Gentiles being drawn to worship the Holy One of Israel, his exhilarating promises of all peoples singing doxology to the God of hosts and rejoicing at the end-time banquet in Zion, and his radical promises of the God of Israel one day swallowing up death itself and raising the dead.

About the Author

Paul Richard Raabe attended Northwest Lutheran elementary school in Milwaukee and Milwaukee Lutheran High School. His degrees are B.S. from (then) Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska; M.Div. from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis; M.A. in Classical Greek and Latin from Washington University in St. Louis; and Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern studies and Northwest Semitic from the University of Michigan. He was ordained in 1979. He taught Classical Greek at (then) Concordia College, Ann Arbor, for four years and exegesis at Concordia Seminary for thirty-five years and has been teaching biblical studies at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix since 2018.

Dr. Raabe has served as a guest instructor in the Philippines, Brazil, and Sweden. He has participated in two archaeological excavations, one in southern Israel and one in northern Syria. He wrote the notes on Obadiah for the ESV Study Bible and the new edition of The Harper Collins Study Bible. He has served on The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Commission on Theology and Church Relations, has presented at many pastoral conferences, and has taught numerous lay groups. His publications include Psalm Structures (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series), Obadiah (Anchor Bible), and over sixty articles in books, journals, and dictionaries such as Journal of Biblical Literature, Concordia Journal, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Concordia Theological Quarterly, Hebrew Annual Review, Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies, Anchor Bible Dictionary, and Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible.

Endorsements for Isaiah 13-27 - Concordia Commentary

This commentary is distinctive in its comprehensive approach. Paul Raabe gives particular attention to an explanation of the received Hebrew text as well as to his torical and literary analyses and to the place of this material in ancient and modern Christian theology. It will immediately establish itself as a standard resource for preach ers and lay readers who require a traditional yet freshly informed treatment of these otherwise somewhat neglected chapters.
—H. G. M. Williamson, Emeritus Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford

Here is a commentary with helpful resources for all levels of readers—not only careful textual notes on the original Hebrew text with a fresh translation of Isaiah but also wise and accessible commentary with attention to historical and literary features without losing sight of the theological horizon of the entire book of Isaiah and its role in shaping redemptive history. It is a gift to those wanting to go deeper into this key prophetic voice in Scripture.
—Mark J. Boda, Ph.D. (Cambridge), Professor of Old Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Paul Raabe offers here a thoroughly researched but accessible Concordia Commentary covering the most difficult and thus often neglected section of Isaiah (chapters 13–27), which emphasizes Yahweh’s sovereignty over all nations. Affirming Isaianic authorship, Raabe helpfully situates these chapters within both their historicalcultural setting in the Assyrian era and their literarytheological context in the canonical book of Isaiah.
—Dr. Richard Schultz, Blanchard Professor of Old Testament, Wheaton College

Dr. Raabe’s commentary combines a highly sophisticated treatment of the poetic language of Isaiah with a faithfulness to the book’s historical as well as prophetical and theological claims. For anyone studying these lesserknown chapters of the bib lical book, the commentary is an invaluable help. It is a true joy to follow the careful exposition of the message of Isaiah to the nations.
—Dr. Torbörn Johansson, Rector, Lutheran School of Theology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Paul Raabe’s previous scholarship on the “oracles about the nations” in the prophetic literature helped provoke my own interest in these important but often overlooked texts. Therefore, I am excited that he has written a detailed commentary on the collection of prophecies about the nations in Isaiah 13–27. Full of philological, exegetical, and theological insights, this commentary has been a great resource for research for my dissertation on these same chapters.
—Terry Iles, Ph.D. candidate in Hebrew Bible, Harvard University