Jesus and the Suffering Servant
Isaiah 53 and Christian Origins
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2009
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Publisher's Description
Did Jesus of Nazareth live and die without the teaching about the righteous Servant of the Lord in Isaiah 53 having exerted any significant influence on his ministry? Did the use of Isaiah 53 to interpret his mission actually begin with Jesus?
Endorsements (2)
“A gripping current sweep of one of the most axial fault lines in Christianity's geologic base! This scholarly symposium zeroes in, with no holds barred, on the critical and hermeneutic availability of Isaiah's 'suffering servant' (hence of the Hebrew Bible) for grasping Jesus today. Vastly crucial for the raging debates about atonement, canon, and the core of faith.”
“Did Jesus think of his own death as atoning? Because the figure of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah offers a model of atoning death, scholars have asked themselves whether Jesus ever referred to this text. Some have insisted that we have to say no in the absence of a precise citation; others have claimed that we have the right to say yes on the grounds of Christian belief. Both those extremes are represented here, as is the more productive approach of considering just how people in antiquity read this vitally important text.”
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