Author : Daniel M. I. Cole
Release : 2019
Genre : Bible
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Paul and Isaiah's Servant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paul and Isaiah's Servant write by Daniel M. I. Cole. This book was released on 2019. Paul and Isaiah's Servant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation concerns the intersection between the New Testament use of the Old Testament, hermeneutics, and ethics in Paul's use of Isaiah's servant prophecy. After setting out the need for this study, the first stage of the research examines the verses in their original Masoretic context and demonstrates that Isaiah's servant prophecies are tightly integrated into their context to form one broad prophetic arc. This arc promises that a servant will save people from sin through his victorious death and ensuing work through his followers and thus bring them into God's new creation; it is therefore truly a salvation history. The second stage of the research considers the extant Second Temple interpretations of these verses, especially by Isaiah's Septuagint translator. In each case the author's conception of history is shown to warrant both the choice and use of the particular verses. The third stage considers Paul's use of Isaiah's Servant prophecy in Romans, 2 Corinthians, and Galatians. With respect to hermeneutical warrant, Paul uses the texts of Isaiah in line with its salvation history, which he argues has reached its fulfilment in the death of Christ and the ensuing proclamation of the gospel. More than this, Paul's own union with Christ also warrants his application of several of these texts to his own life and ministry--especially from Isa 49--as Jesus Christ the servant continues to discharge his work of the proclamation of the gospel to the nations through his servant Paul. With respect to his ethics, Paul uses Isaiah's prophecy of the servant to define the place of and the relationships between God, Jesus, himself, his Christian hearers, gentiles who have not heard the message of the gospel, Jews, and all those who refuse to obey the gospel by trusting its message and messenger. Paul draws both general and specific ethical entailments on the basis of these relationships. This suggests, therefore, that Paul does work with an indicative-imperative ethic, although the indicative side of the construal must be salvation-historically shaped to do justice to the way in which Paul conceives of ethics for both himself and his hearers.