Theological Interpretation and Isaiah 53: A Critical Comparison of Bernhard Duhm, Brevard Childs, and Alec Motyer 9780567659279, 9780567456069, 9780567641083

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
1. Theological Interpretation and “Historie”
2. Why Isaiah 53?
3. The Three Interpreters: Duhm, Childs, and Motyer
4. The Shape of the Study
Chapter 1: BERNHARD DUHM, THEOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS AND ISAIAH
1. Duhm’s Heritage
2. Locating Duhm’s Hermeneutics
a. The Hermeneutics of Theologie der Propheten
b. The Hermeneutics of Israels Propheten
3. Das Buch Jesaia
a. The Contribution of Jesaia
b. The Shape of Jesaia
Chapter 2: BERNHARD DUHM AND ISAIAH 53
1. Approaching Isaiah 53: The Knecht Jahwes After the Ebed-Jahwe-Lieder
2. Isaiah 53: “Die vierte Dichtung über den Knecht Jahwes”
Chapter 3: BREVARD CHILDS, THEOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS AND ISAIAH
1. The Text “Itself”
a. The Chronicler
b. The Psalms
c. The Prophets
2. The Text and/in the Church
a. Childs and Yeago: Appropriating Trinitarian Categories
b. Childs and Allegory: From “Ontological Plane” to Trinitarian “Res”
3. Isaiah as Exemplary: “The Brittle Quality of the Present Literary Structure”
a. The Book of Isaiah
b. Chapters 1–39
c. Deutero-Isaiah
d. Trito-Isaiah
Chapter 4: BREVARD CHILDS AND ISAIAH 53
1. The Text “Itself”
2. The Text and/in the Church
Chapter 5: ALEC MOTYER, THEOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS AND ISAIAH
1. Motyer and Evangelical Hermeneutics
a. Beginning with Jesus
b. Inspiration, Revelation, and Propositional Content
c. “Long-term Prophecy”
d. Structurism and Literary Unity
2. Structurism and Single Authorship in Isaiah
a. Structurism
b. Single Authorship
Chapter 6: ALEC MOTYER AND ISAIAH 53
1. Contextualizing Isaiah 53
2. Isaiah 53
a. Enigma (52:13–15)
b. Revelation (53:1–9)
c. The Servant Triumphant (53:10–12)
Chapter 7: CONCLUSION: HERMENEUTICS AND ISAIAH 53
1. On Isaiah 53
a. Revisiting Duhm’s Hermeneutics
b. Revisiting Childs’s Hermeneutics
c. Revisiting Motyer’s Hermeneutics
2. The Struggle of Hermeneutics and Isaiah 53
a. Duhm and the Growth of Prophetic Tradition
b. Childs, Exegesis, and the Struggle of “Ontic” Reading
(1) Exegesis
(2) Hermeneutics
c. Motyer and “Penal Substitutionary Atonement”
(1) Exegesis
(2) Hermeneutics and “Historie”
3. Rhetorical Distanciation and Shared Interpretive Structures
a. Rhetorical Distanciation and the Problem of Interlocutors
(1) “Supernaturalists”
(2) “Anthropocentrics”
(3) “Rationalists”
(4) The Cracking of the Walls
b. Shared Interpretive Structures and Interests in Isaiah 53
(1) Duhm and Childs—Hermeneutics and Discrimina
(2) Duhm and Motyer—Hermeneutics and Discrimina
(3) Childs and Motyer—Hermeneutics and Discrimina
(a) “Immediate Referentiality”
(b) “Multi-Leveled Reading.”
(4) Duhm, Childs, and Motyer—Text Criticism as Basis for Loci
EPILOGUE
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors

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LIBRARY OF HEBREW BIBLE/ OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES

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THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION AND ISAIAH 53

A Critical Comparison of Bernhard Duhm, Brevard Childs, and Alec Motyer

Charles E. Shepherd

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