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| The absence of the term in the two principal parts which follow the prologue (56.9-59.21; 60.1-63.6) is rather a phenomenon of //aposiopesis//. In these chapters 'the servants' are slowly but surely constituted without mention of their name. | The absence of the term in the two principal parts which follow the prologue (56.9-59.21; 60.1-63.6) is rather a phenomenon of [[aposiopesis]]. In these chapters 'the servants' are slowly but surely constituted without mention of their name. |
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| === Aposiopesis === | === Aposiopesis === |
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| //The conclusion// of this cursory voyage through 56.9-63.6 is that the question of the 'servants of YHWH' keeps our attention in this section, even though the term is not used. The absence of the term itself is functional and therefore we can speak of an //aposiopesis//. Gradually the servants emerge from nowhere as a party through the development of the concepts 'righteousness' and 'offspring, seed', which changes into 'people' at the end. The chapters mentioned contain one drama, in which the servants rise up from oppression and sin[,] in order to become the righteous offspring of the Servant. At the end, after the anticipated entry into the sanctuary of Zion (62.10-12), they are constituted as such. | //The conclusion// of this cursory voyage through 56.9-63.6 is that the question of the 'servants of YHWH' keeps our attention in this section, even though the term is not used. The absence of the term itself is functional and therefore we can speak of an [[aposiopesis]]. Gradually the servants emerge from nowhere as a party through the development of the concepts 'righteousness' and 'offspring, seed', which changes into 'people' at the end. The chapters mentioned contain one drama, in which the servants rise up from oppression and sin[,] in order to become the righteous offspring of the Servant. At the end, after the anticipated entry into the sanctuary of Zion (62.10-12), they are constituted as such. |
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| === Lament (63.7) === | === Lament (63.7) === |
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| We may briefly summarize our reading of Isa. 56.1-66.14. It appears that the theme of 'the servants of YHWH' is introduced in the last chapters of DI (53.10; 54.17) on the one hand and programmatically announced in the prologue of TI (56.6) on the other hand. In the following chapters it is carefully elaborated. There is no passage, except 63.1-6, in which the theme does not play a central part, whether or not the expression 'the servants of YHWH' itself occurs. It is indeed missing in the larger section of 56.9-62.12, but here we are confronted with a deliberate //aposiopesis//. Some terms in this text complex that are closely connected with 'the servants', i.e. 'seed' and 'righteousness', prepare for the mention of 'the servants' (63.17). The actual decision about their destiny, their vindication by YHWH, is given in ch. 65. | We may briefly summarize our reading of Isa. 56.1-66.14. It appears that the theme of 'the servants of YHWH' is introduced in the last chapters of DI (53.10; 54.17) on the one hand and programmatically announced in the prologue of TI (56.6) on the other hand. In the following chapters it is carefully elaborated. There is no passage, except 63.1-6, in which the theme does not play a central part, whether or not the expression 'the servants of YHWH' itself occurs. It is indeed missing in the larger section of 56.9-62.12, but here we are confronted with a deliberate [[aposiopesis]]. Some terms in this text complex that are closely connected with 'the servants', i.e. 'seed' and 'righteousness', prepare for the mention of 'the servants' (63.17). The actual decision about their destiny, their vindication by YHWH, is given in ch. 65. |
