The author of the monumental 3-volume Anchor commentary on Isaiah ruminates on a bevy of intriguing points: Who was Isaiah? How did he influence the writer of the Gospel of Matthew so profoundly? Who exactly were the 'remnant of Israel' ? How has 'the suffering servant' been understood through the centuries? This comprehensive history of this interpretation between the prophet Malachi and the first days of Christianity traces three different prophetic traditions in Isaiah: the 'man of God,' the critic of social structures, and the apocalyptic seer by encompassing several disciplines: hermeneutics, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple studies, and Christian origins.
