Ivan Friesen explores how the interpretation of the book of Isaiah is carried out and lived out today in faith communities where the Bible is the bedrock of faith and life. Such an interpretation combines the concerns of pastoral care with the distress and uncertainty of prophetic action.
The commentary groups the sixty-six chapters of Isaiah into six distinct but continuous parts. Each part may be explored as one might explore the room of a house. The furnishings (themes) in each room are different, but the decor (structure) of the house combines to lend to the book an overall unity of purpose. The architecture of the book as a whole has distinct features that include words of judgment as well as words of promise announcing a new day dawning. In this new day dawning, there are strong elements of a messianic hope.
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978-0-8361-9440-1 (9780836194401)
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Ivan D. Friesen writes the Isaiah commentary out of his North American Mennonite church context. He did his undergraduate studies at Freeman Junior College and Goshen College. He earned a degree in biblical studies at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries. His graduate studies in the Old Testament were at San Francisco Theological Seminary (ThM, 1973) and at the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto (PhD, 1990). Friesen was director of Mennonite Central Committee programs in the Middle East (West Bank) from 1968 to 1971 and has taught at Swift Current Bible Institute, Saskatchewan; University of Botswana, Gaborone; and Shaw Divinity School, Raleigh, North Carolina. He and his wife Rachel coauthored a series of Shalom Pamphlets on the Christian peace witness and he has coedited, with Mary Schertz, Beautiful upon the Mountains.
