Isaiah: A New Translation, with A Preliminary Dissertation and Notes
Overview
Providing a new translation of the original text based on extensive semantic studies, Robert Lowth elucidates the inherent meaning of the text. Offering extensive critical notes and annotation, Lowth’s volume clarifies historical, political, and social context of the text.
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- Presents a translation of the book of Isaiah
- Provides verse-by-verse commentary
- Includes an appendix on textual variations and extensive indexes
This work ranks very high among Biblical scholars—the translation is sublime, and the preliminary dissertation and notes invaluable. It wakened the attention to the study of the Hebrew scriptures, and excited the emulation of Hebrew scholars, who following his example, have supplied improved versions of other prophetic writings.
—The Eclectic Review
No former translator has expressed the meaning and spirit of the evangelical prophet so felicitously as Lowth.
—The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature
- Title: Isaiah: A New Translation, with A Preliminary Dissertation and Notes
- Author: Robert Lowth
- Publisher: William Hilliard
- Publication Date: 1834
- Pages: 545