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OT 19.7 | Isaiah's Suffering Servant: How Exile Transformed Israel's Covenant

Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Most Western readers assume the passage refers to an individual, but the original text may describe an entire nation. This video traces the four Servant Songs of Second Isaiah, examines who is actually speaking in chapter 53, and reveals how an anonymous 6th-century BCE poet transformed national catastrophe into a theology of universal mission. Key concepts covered: • The historical context of Second Isaiah (chapters 40–55), composed during or after the Babylonian exile of 587–539 BCE • The four Servant Songs (Isaiah 42, 49, 50, and 52–53) and how they progressively develop the servant's identity and mission • The phrase "Israel, My servant" appearing approximately eight times throughout Second Isaiah as a recurring identification • How national personification works in ancient Hebrew poetry — "Daughter Zion," "Mother Rachel," and the servant as collective figures • The critical interpretive key to Isaiah 53: the speakers are the nations and their kings (introduced in 52:15), confessing that Israel's suffering was caused by their sins • The "faithful remnant" resolution to the puzzle of how Israel can have a mission to itself in Isaiah 49:5 • How the Davidic covenant (2 Samuel 7), once made with the king alone, was transferred to the entire people in Isaiah 55:3–5 • The birth of universal mission in Israelite theology — Israel as "a light of nations" mediating between God and all peoples • The distinction between Second Isaiah's original meaning and later reinterpretations by early Christians and rabbinic Judaism • How the idea of redemptive suffering shaped Judaism's self-understanding, Christian theology, and universalism in monotheistic religion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCE MATERIALS The source materials for this video are from    • Lecture 19. Literary Prophecy: Perspective...