An article by Marshall Roth published on Aish.com, an Orthodox Jewish outreach and education organization, arguing directly against the Christian messianic reading of Isaiah 53's Suffering Servant as a single future individual. Read here directly: Roth's own argument is that the Servant is explicitly identified earlier in the same set of Servant Songs, quoting Isaiah's own words, "You are My servant, O Israel" (Isaiah 41:8) and "You are My servant, Israel" (Isaiah 49:3), and his own stated conclusion, "there is no reason that the 'servant' in Isaiah 53 would suddenly switch and refer to someone other than the Jewish people." Judaism's own account of its own reading, not outside scholarship.
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Marshall Roth's article on Aish.com, an Orthodox Jewish outreach and education organization, the lower tier reflecting an advocacy and outreach platform rather than independent academic scholarship, read here directly as Judaism's own account of its own reading of Isaiah 53 rather than as outside scholarship on the passage. NotesA Jewish outreach organization's own reading of a contested biblical text, tiered as tradition's own account, the same tier and reasoning as this row's companion Aish source on Isaiah 7:14.
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AuthorMarshall Roth
PublisherAish.com
Publication Year2011
URLhttps://aish.com/isaiah_53_the_suffering_servant/
Source Typetradition
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This source names Isaiah directly: "the Christian messianic reading of Isaiah 53's Suffering Servant as a single future individual."
This source names Israel directly: "own words, "You are My servant, O Israel" (Isaiah 41:8) and "You are My servant, Israel" (Isaiah 49:3), and his own stated conclusion, "there is no reason that the 'servant' in Isaiah 53 would..."
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Prophecies, 3 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 held Differently, 1 general references.
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