The Akedah Servant Complex: The Soteriological Linkage of Genesis 22 and Isaiah 53 in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Writings

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-90-429-2904-3
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Contributions to Biblical Exeg

This book traces the convergence of two biblical texts, Akedah (Genesis

22) and the Fourth Servant Song (Isaiah 53) in early Jewish and Christian

writings. The passages share verbal and conceptual resonances, including

the suffering of a righteous individual, divine complicity in an unjust

death, unresisting compliance, notions of cultic sacrifice, exaltation and

reward. Given their intertextual links, the two passages have been

associated together in some ancient texts, within contexts of suffering

righteousness and sacrifice. This book labels the apparent convergence of

the primary texts as the Akedah Servant complex, and it develops a

dialogic intertextual approach to determine the presence of the complex in

selected passages: Stage I/ pre-70CE Jewish writings; Stage II/ New

Testament; Stage III /post-70CE (rabbinic and patristic) texts. This study

indicates that the linking of Isaiah 53 and Genesis 22 is a long-standing

tradition which resulted in shaping an early Christian model of atone

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Andrado, Pn

De Andrado, P.N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie