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In the last decades opinion concerning the origin of the book of Isaiah (BI), as almost universally since B. Duhm (1892), has begun to waver. Some scholars no longer consider the book a combination of three more or less independent documents, Proto-Isaiah (PI), Deutero-Isaiah (DI) and Trito-Isaiah (TI), which have each experienced their own redaction history. The book is, rather, the result of a complicated process, in which extensive vorlagen of what now are called the three principal parts, have been joined together by means of sweeping redaction, which has attuned all the materials to each other.
Lament (63.17)
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The imperative 'return' (shûb), addressed to God and without a prepositional adjunct, occurs, to be sure, only in the language of prayers (Pss. 6.5; 90.13; with a similar adjunct in Exod. 32.12; Num. 10.36; Pss. 7.8; 80.15), 1) but it also belongs to the themes which connect TI with DI. The only other place in Isa. 40-66 where there is question of God's returning (shûb), is the provisional end of DI: 'For eye to eye they see YHWH returning to Zion' (52.8).
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