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18 - Isaiah in the New Testament

from Part IV - Afterlives of the Book of Isaiah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2024

By
David W. Pao
Edited by
Christopher B. Hays
Christopher B. Hays
Affiliation:
Fuller Theological Seminary, California
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Summary

Isaiah was arguably the most influential book of the Hebrew Bible upon the authors of the New Testament. It was the most frequently quoted book, apart from the lengthier book of Psalms, but as David Pao points out in “Isaiah in the New Testament,” it also supplied language and structural models for significant theological themes of early Christianity. He analyzes the role of Isaiah in New Testament themes such as eschatology, Christology, obduracy, and universalism. He also looks at the way in which whole New Testament writings were shaped by Isaianic influence, including all four Gospels, Acts, Romans, and Revelation. All this illustrates why Isaiah has been called “The Fifth Gospel.”

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eschatologyChristologyobduracyuniversalismtheologyFifth Gospel
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The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah , pp. 297 - 309
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Hooker, Morna D. Jesus and the Servant: The Influence of the Servant Concept of Deutero-Isaiah in the New Testament. London: SPCK, 1959.Google Scholar
Janowski, Bernd, and Stuhlmacher, Peter, ed. The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian Sources. Trans. Daniel P. Bailey. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.Google Scholar
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Moyise, Steve, and Menken, Maarten J. J., ed. Isaiah in the New Testament. London/New York: T&T Clark, 2005.Google Scholar
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Shum, Shiu-Lun. Paul’s Use of Isaiah in Romans: A Comparative Study of Paul’s Letter to the Romans and the Sibylline and Qumran Sectarian Texts. WUNT 2.156. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002.Google Scholar
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