Context Matters

Isaiah's Servant Songs

Episode Summary

Dr. Gordon McConville is Professor Emeritus at the University of Gloucestershire. He is a prolific writer who focuses primarily on Deuteronomy and the Prophetic books. He recently completed a commentary on Isaiah along with a smaller book focused on the suffering servant in Isaiah 53. Today we talk about the context of the historic person named Isaiah and the overall composition of text that bears his name.

Episode Notes

Gordon McConville grew up in Northern Ireland, and studied Modern Languages at Cambridge and Theology in Edinburgh, before doing a PhD in Old Testament with Prof Gordon Wenham at Queen's University, He has taught at Trinity College, Bristol and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Gloucestershire.

Find his book The Suffering Servant HERE

Find his commentary on Isaiah HERE

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