Identities in transition : the pursuit of Isa. 52:13-53:12 / by Kristin Joachimsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joachimsen, Kristin.

Series:

Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 142.

Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 0083-5889 ; v. 142

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Isaiah, LII, 13-LIII, 12--Commentaries.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Isa. 52:13-53:12 has occupied a special position within Jewish and Christian traditions, as well as within biblical scholarship. This book focuses particularly on different ways of reading this text. Historical-critical readings in the tradition after Bernhard Duhm are challenged. In Duhmian readings of Isa. 52:13-53:12, Gottesknecht has become a technical term, Ebed-Jahwe-Lied a genre, Stellvertretung an established theological concept and “servant song research” a separate discipline within biblical scholarship. After a critical presentation of the Duhmian readings, three other ways of reading Isa. 52:13-53:12 based on variations of linguistic theory are presented: one linguistic, one narratological and one intertextual. These show in different manners how the text is unstable, heterogeneous and composite. In these readings, the trope of personification is central.

Contents:

pt. 1. In pursuit of Isa. 52:13-53:12

pt. 2. Isa. 52:13-53:12 : identities in transition.

Notes:

Based on the author's doctoral thesis, University of Oslo, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-12079-8

9786613120793

90-04-20126-2

OCLC:

727950196

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004201064.i-448 DOI