As Bernd Janowski has put it, this line of the text is the “statement … toward which everything flows” in the passage.25 A precise understanding of this element of the text, therefore, will contribute substantially to a more complete understanding of ISAIAH 53 exegetically and its relationship to the whole of Isaiah 40–66 as well. Janowski himself translates אָשָׁם as “the means of wiping out guilt,” and renders the whole line as follows: “and he made his life the means of wiping out guilt.”26 In
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