Berges, Ulrich2013-04-192013-04-192012Berges, U 2012, 'Servant and suffering in Isaiah and Jeremiah: who borrowed from whom?', Old Testamenst Essay, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 247-259.1010-9919http://hdl.handle.net/2263/21321In this paper I propose a reading of the fourth Servant Song that goes beyond the alternative of the “suffering servant” as either an individual or a collective body. The search for a combination of these two main approaches is indeed not a new venture.3 I hope to shed some new light, however, on the question by identifying the group of authors as formerly exiled temple-singers who presented themselves to post-exilic Israel as the suffering, atoning servant – using some elements of the literary portrait of Jeremiah.13 pagesPDFenOld Testament Society of South AfricaIsaiahJeremiahBible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.Isaiah (Biblical prophet)Article