What is it about?

The servant of Isaiah 42,1 receives the responsability to mage justice, in the line of the kings of Mesopotamia. But in the same line is Cyrus that receives the anointing. We have a continuity of this tradition in the Book of Isaiah, particularly in Isaiah 61,1, where the "servant" receives a new onction.

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Why is it important?

The tradition of the "servant" like substitute of the davidic King, but with the same type of responsability that the kings of Mesopotamie

Perspectives

The Book of Isaiah like an alternative to the davidic tradition. In chapter 11 we have a recuperation of the davidic tradition but in the line of the "servant" and of the Book of Proverbs

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This page is a summary of: Le “serviteur” et “élu” d’Is 42,1 et ses disciples en Is 54,17ss, Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, January 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2015.1025548.
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