The Suffering Servant - Isaiah 53 Flashcards
when was The Suffering Servant - Isaiah 53 written about? and what could it be discussing?
About 700 years before the birth of Jesus
- Jews nation, Messiah, or Jesus as the messiah?
what does Rabbi Tovia Singer say and what do most ancients say about it?
- sufferings described are those of the nation of Israel
- Refers to messiahs suffering
what does Christians claim it to be?
A Messianic prophecy fulfilled by Jesus
- hes the suffering servant, who suffers and dies on the cross because of the sin of others
Isaiah 53:5
‘he was pierced for out transgressions, he was crushed for out iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed’
What did Ehrman use Jesus’ Passion Predictions, recorded in the Gospels, to help support what?
The idea that Jesus knew that he must suffer and die
- which would fulfill the prophecy
- and show he was the messiah
what did Hooker believe?
- Jesus, in referring to the sufferings of the Son Of Man, did not have the suffering servant concept in mind
- meaning insufficient evidence in the New Testament
What does Roth believe?
- Christians have mistranslated and distorted Isaiah 53
- to show Jesus fulfilling old testament scriptures
but what does Roth also think?
’ in the days of Jesus nobody ever understood Isaiah 53 to be predicting the death of the Messiah
the 20th century Christians new English Bible… identifies the suffering servant as the nations of Israel ‘which has suffered as a humiliated individual’.. the Jewish people - as bearers of God’s message of morality and justice - have a unique crucial role to play in human history.
- as Prophet Isaiah predicts, this will be come immensely clear when the messiah arrives
- Roth, as a jew, believes Isaiah 53 is referring to the Jewish nation and is still waiting for the messiah
