• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The Suffering Servant and personhood
  • Beteiligte: Wilks, John G.F.
  • Erschienen: Brill, 2005
  • Erschienen in: Evangelical Quarterly
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.1163/27725472-07703001
  • ISSN: 0014-3367; 2772-5472
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>This article evaluates the proposal that personhood in the Old Testament is understood corporately. Finding no basis for a blurring of identity that loses a sense of individuality, it does identify a strong sense of corporate responsibility for the actions of any one member of the group. While investigation of the identity of the servant in Is. 40–55 also finds difficulty in resolving the individualised and corporate aspects, the challenge to both individuals and communities is to shoulder the responsibilities of the servant, and so experience a fuller personhood.</jats:p>