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:
"This book is certainly a very important contribution to the study of 'the remarkable theological contributions of the prophet we call First Isaiah.' Marshalling literary analysis into rhetorical arguments, it demonstrates the underlying theological postulates of this composition."
--Shawn Zelig Aster Biblica