Paul and Isaiah’s Servants: Paul’s Theological Reading of Isaiah 40–66 in 2 Corinthians 5:14

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Paul’s reading of the Old Testament witnesses to the significance of the Old Testament from a specifically Christian way. This study argues that a theological approach to understanding Paul’s appeal to and reading of the Old Testament, especially Isaiah, offers important insights into the ways in which Christians should read the Old Testament and a two-testament canon today. By way of example,...

genre and method can, however, lead to a level of confusion regarding precise definition—midrash as genre or midrash as exegetical activity.41 The latter is more closely related to the comparison of Paul with ‘midrash’. It is affirmed that Paul’s reading of the OT is seeking to actualize the ancient text in the new eschatological reality of God’s activity in Christ and in this sense is like midrash. However, Paul’s framework of actualization and reading is of a different sort than his rabbinic contemporaries

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