Isaiah 1-39: The Christian Standard Commentary

Gary V. Smith is a retired professor of Christian Studies at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee (2004–2010). He previously taught Old Testament and Hebrew at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri (1998–2004), Bethel Theological Seminary in St Paul, Minnesota (1983-1998), and Winnipeg Theological Seminary (1973-1983). He has published commentaries on Amos (Christian Focus, 1989), Hosea, Amos, Micah (NIVAC, Zondervan, 2001), Isaiah 1–39 (NAC, B&H, 2009), Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (Cornerstone Commentary, Tyndale, 2010; also in Mandarin, 2015), and Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi (Kerux Commentary, Kregel, 2020). He wrote Broadening Your Biblical Horizons (ATA, 1991), An Introduction to the Hebrew Prophets: The Prophets as Preachers (B&H, 1994) (also in Spanish, B&H, 2007), and Interpreting the Prophetic Books: An Exegetical Handbook (Kregel, 2014). He earned a B.A in anthropology from Wheaton College, M.A from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Ph.D. from Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Languages in Philadelphia. He did further academic research in Jerusalem, Israel and in Cambridge, England.