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Variations on a Theme (Eastern Frisian, Paperback)
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Rather than being content with atomistic approaches to a text,
recent scholarship has increasingly seen the value of tracing
motifs and their variations as they run through biblical books, and
even across book boundaries. Williamson takes up the important but
inadequately explored messianic theme, tracing its development and
variations through the canonical Isaiah. He sets this unifying
thematic study against a counterpoint of redactional analysis,
which exploits and builds on his previous work in The Book Called
Isaiah: Deutero-Isaiah's Role in Composition and Redaction (1994).
The current work was composed to serve as the source material for
the 1997 Didsbury Lectures at the DEGREESNazarene Theological
College near Manchester, England. In his introductory chapter,
Williamson sets the foundation of his theme against the broader
backdrop of the king, which moves from the minor tones of the
human, Davidic king in the earlier chapters of Isaiah to the major
key of the divine king later in the book. He goes against much
recent scholarship in holding that the former derive most probably
from before the exile. The second variation concerns Immanuel,
looking in detail at chapters 6-9. He presents and critiques
Buddes' century-old hypothesis that Isaiah 6-8 were an Isaianic
Memoir which originally opened the book. Rather than taking the
call narratives of other prophets as a comparison, Williamson finds
closer parallels between the calls of Isaiah and of Micaiah (1 Kgs
22) and the literary shape of Amos 7-8. He sees the chief interest
in the Immanuel figure being in fulfilling the role of righteous
rule within the Davidic dynasty, rather than in identifying any
specific individual. The third variation, the "Servant" is drawn
from Deutero-Isaiah. There the original Davidic relationship with
God is transferred to the nation of Israel. She will be God's
witness and mediator to the world. As a Christian, Williamson
brings up the interpretation that Jesus is the servant according to
the NT. He defends his view by stating that "Jesus fulfills, but
does not thereby exhaust, the prophecy" (p. 53). The theme of
justice and righteousness in association with the servant ties his
role to that of the king in the first section.
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