What is the context of Isaiah 52 and 53?
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In this article it is argued that within the context of the book the prophecy of Isaiah 53 functions as the missing link between the different statements which Isaiah 6 and 57 make about the High and Lofty One. | |
According to him, First Isaiah, the pre-exilic prophet of judgement, when read apart from Second (the exilic prophet of consolation) and Third Isaiah (postexilic prophet of promise), loses its theological context. | |
This study argues that Isa 10,16–19, located in the context of the anti-Assyrian prophecy, provides essential clues in understanding the formation of the book of Isaiah. | |
31 Citations | It shows that the Christian interpretation of Isaiah 2 and Micah 4 is best seen in the context of a rival Jewish understanding of the text. |
These observations invite us to study these and other intertextual connections between Isaiah 6, 53 and 57, and to explore their significance for understanding the God talk of the book of Isaiah. | |
37 Citations | "Isaiah 56-66 does not constitute what most people today would recognize as a literary work. . . . |
Open access•Book 01 Sep 1998 24 Citations | 88-103), and concludes that, from the striking lack of Jewish interpretations of this chapter in the intertestamental period, she "can find no convincing evidence to suggest that Isaiah 53 played any significant role in Jesus' own understanding of his ministry" (p. … |
Open access•Journal Article 8 Citations | On a literary level, Isaiah 36–39 shows itself to be a vital piece of the overall literary structure of Proto- Isaiah in that it highlights the fulfi lment of Isaiah’s initial Immanuel prophecy in chapters 7–12. |
24 Nov 2016 | It looks at the use of Isa 52:7-10 in the Book of Mormon, arguing that that volume exhibits four irreducibly distinct approaches to the interpretation of Isaiah, the interrelations among which are explicitly meant to speak to nineteenth-century American Christianity. |
24 Citations | The argument presented in this article is that the term ‘asham’ in Isa 53:10 refers to the sacrificial ritual of the guilt offering, that this reference is supported by indications throughout Isaiah 53, and that therefore the suffering and death of this Servant of the LORD is to be understood as sacrificial by analogy with the ritual of the guilt or reparation offering in the book of Leviticus. |