Abstract

Not only is the of the Lord as a technical term (except perhaps for Moses) foreign to the Hebrew Bible, and not only is there no justification for isolating the passages from their preserved contexts, but it is seen, further, that the concepts Servant and the servant as are likewise post-biblical in origin-actually the product of Christianity in the period subsequent to the death of Jesus. Thought of Jesus and the Early Church, Miss Hooker concludes inter alia: The account of the beliefs of the early Christians which is given in the Acts of the Apostles does not suggest that the primitive community ever thought of Jesus as 'the Servant' of Deutero-Isaiah. In Acts the Passion of Jesus is identified with the suffering of the Servant, but nowhere is described as giving salvation to men.Keywords: Apostles; Christianity; Deutero-Isaiah; Hebrew Bible; Hooker; Suffering servant; Vicarious Sufferer

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