ICC has been the supreme English language Bible commentary series throughout the twentieth century, and the recent additions to it...maintain its reputation as the commentary of choice, the first volume to be pulled from the shelf when a really tricky issue of exegesis or exposition is involved or an authoritative survey of historical and recent scholarly interpretation is sought on any particular passage.
Professor James Dunn, University of Durham, UK
Williamson has written a masterly commentary on Isa 1-5, for which students of Isaiah will be forever grateful.
Review of Biblical Literature Williamson's commentary is a magisterial reference work. The overall redaction-critical approach to the Book of Isaiah as a whole and in its parts provides an interpretative framework in which thousands of detailed comments are offered. Notable is the full account that is taken of the linguistic information now available from the Dead Sea Scrolls for the transmission of the text of Isaiah. The exegesis engages principally with western scholarship of the last several generations but there are also multiple references to earlier Jewish and Christian engagements with the book. For serious readers of Isaiah this commentary is indispensable.
George Brooke, Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, University of Manchester, UK