Recent Foreign Theological Literature

ciently considering the problems of authenticity-to see the way in which Yahweh’s concern with other nations, in various ways, is fundamentally an expression of concern with Judah, its attitudes and its conduct. Inevitably this discussion involves much attention to the relationship between political and religious thought, and this is also the subject of a study by W. Dietrich, Jesaja und die Politik. Its main section (57-196) offers a very careful analysis of the texts relevant to the two main periods of the prophet’s recognizable activity; in the final part (197-304), there is consideration both of the wider