Title: Misses the Mark
Product review: I'm sure Mr. Watts is a very smart fellow, but I find this commentary (and Watts' 2nd volume) mostly unhelpful. Watts holds to a rare theory that Isaiah is a play written in its entirety by a 6th century BCE (i.e. post-exilic) anonymous writer. This is a very unconventional theory and I'm not aware of any other major commentator who shares it. It's neither the traditional Isaiah nor the Deutero-Isaiah theory.I gave it two stars instead of one because maybe Watts gets some credit for creative scholarship - which at least gets people thinking. But as a useful commentary for most people, I'd avoid it. I am disappointed that Word chose this as their Isaiah commentary. I generally like the Word Commentary series, but this one totally misses the target. My advice to Word - dump it and commission another Isaiah volume by a different writer.
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