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The Followers of Jesus as the ‘Servant’: Luke’s Model from Isaiah for the Disciples in Luke-Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Luke models his portrayal of Jesus and his disciples in Luke-Acts after the human agent of the “New Exodus” in Isaiah 40–66, the servant. In the Isaianic New Exodus, the servant is integral to the restoration. The servant’s mission being embodied is, to a great extent, how the New Exodus comes to fruition. This work argues that Luke sees Jesus fulfilling the servant role in an ultimate sense,...

My thesis is that Luke1 builds aspects of his portrayal both of Jesus and the disciples in Luke-Acts on the human agent of the Isaianic New Exodus (NE) in Isaiah 40–66, the servant. In the Isaianic NE the servant is integral to the restoration; the servant’s mission being embodied is, to a great extent, how the NE comes to fruition.2 The servant connection is at times explicit, as Jesus is identified with the servant in Lk. 4:18–19 (quoting
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