Description:
Examines the rhetorical strategies behind the monotheizing rhetoric of First Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible.
Brief description: Matthew J. Lynch is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Regent College. He is the author of Monotheism and Institutions in the Books of Chronicles and Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural Study.
Review Quotes:
"The references to idols in the first half of the book of Isaiah have never before been studied together in detail. Given the prominence of the subject in the second half of the book, this is a surprising gap that Lynch here fills with great insight. This will prove to be an enduring contribution to the wider topic of the development of monotheism in Israel."
-H. G. M. Williamson, Emeritus Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford