ISAIAH BY THE DAY
A new devotional translation
By Alec Motyer. Christian Focus. 318 pages. £14.99
ISBN 978 1 845 506 544
At the beginning of this year, I spent a delightful few months going through Isaiah in my quiet times using this material, and they have been both refreshing and inspiring times.
If my memory serves me correctly, theological faculty in the US voted it among the top ten Christian books published last year. I can understand why. Alec Motyer has, of course, spent a lifetime studying Isaiah and has produced a number of detailed, not to say definitive, commentaries on the book. But here, while making sure we grasp the structure of Isaiah (with three divisions of Christ as King, Servant and Conqueror), he provides his own illuminating translation of the text accompanied by fascinating footnotes on interesting phrases, difficult words, historical references and intentional ambiguities in what the great prophet wrote.
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