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,...

philological problems, it is not primarily ‘objective professional exegesis’ but exegesis concerned with religion.33 Childs states that ‘midrash is, above all, an interpretation of a canonical text within the context and for the religious purposes of a community, and is not just embellishment of tradition. Midrash can be related in different degrees of closeness to the literal meaning of the text, but what is constitutive of midrash is that the interpretation does attach itself to a text.’34 Therefore,

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