Jesus of Nazareth (the New Testament and Christian tradition).Several individual referents have been proposed: Sometimes the entire pericope is interpreted concerning an individual, and in other cases only selected verses are so interpreted. The passage's third-person masculine singular nouns and verbs are cited as evidence for this position.
The individual interpretation states that the intended referent for the servant is a single Israelite man. Three major classes of interpretation have been proposed for the servant of Isaiah 53: Important related questions include the Isaiah 53 servant's relationship with the servant(s) mentioned in the other servant songs, as well as the servant's relationship with the one preaching good news in Isaiah 52:7. The central interpretive question to be answered for the passage concerns Isaiah's intended referent for the servant. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus ( B G Interpretive Options Concerning the Servant's Identity The translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint was made in the last few centuries BCE. 1QIsa b (1st century BCE): all verses.These are the earliest extant witnesses to the Hebrew text of the chapter: įragments containing all or parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Other manuscripts of the Masoretic Text tradition include Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), and the Aleppo Codex (10th century). The standard Hebrew edition that serves as the basis for most modern translations is Codex Leningradensis (1008). The passage survives in a number of autonomous and parallel manuscript traditions in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and others. This chapter is divided into 12 verses, although the pericope begins in Isaiah 52:13. The original text was written in Biblical Hebrew. Major interpretive options for the servant's identity will be discussed below. The passage's themes include a wide variety of ethical subjects, including guilt, innocence, violence, injustice, adherence to the divine will, repentance, and righteousness. Because of the servant's actions, "the guilt of the many" is removed from them (Isa 53:6, 12) and they receive intercession on their behalf from the servant (Isa 53:12). The righteous servant will "make the many righteous," thus extending his righteousness to others (Isa 53:11). After his violent persecution and death, the servant is given long life and prospers the purpose of the Lord (Isa 53:10). The vindication of the servant after death.As a result of the servant's sufferings, his persecutors are given peace (Isa 53:5), healing (Isa 53:5), release from their guilt (Isa 53:6, 12) and escape from punishment (Isa 53:8). In the moment of crisis, the servant is described as innocent of retaliation (Isa 53:7), violence, or deceit (Isa 53:9). The prophet questions whether anyone will believe what he is reporting (Isa. This passage uses violent language to describe the fate of the servant, including suffering, smitten, afflicted, wounded, crushed, bruising, cut off, anguished and exposed to death.
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