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Can Jewish People Accept Isaiah 53 is A Prophecy About Jesus? Pt 1

Jul 23, 2022

Video Description

We will share with Jewish people the Dead Sea Scrolls of Isaiah 53 (and other passages) translated by DSS professionals. We will use such translation, to try to eliminate bias.

We will use the Abegg version because it tells us when the Masoretic text has material differences.

Next to it will be the JPS Version from 1917 so A Jewish Person can assess fairness of translations.

I am sure more modern Jewish translations will reflect DSS discoveries, just as Christians do, but this allows you to do what Jewish sources would do.

The DSS for Isaiah 52:13-15 reads:

13 See, my servant, will prosper, and he will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

14 Just as many were astonished at you – so was he marred in his appearance, more than any human, and his form beyond that of the sons of humans –

15 so will he startle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for what had not been told them they will see; and what they have not heard they will understand.

The DSS for Isaiah 52:1-7 reads -- virtually identical to the JPS 1917:

1 Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

2. For he grew up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form and he had no majesty that we should look at him, and had no attractiveness that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by others, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. He was despised and rejected by others, and like one from whom people hide their faces, and we despised him, and we did not value him.

4 Surely he has borne our sufferings and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken and struck down by God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities; and the punishment that made us whole was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each of us, to his own way; and YHWH / LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth, like a lamb led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth

However, at first 8 changes appear in the Masoretic text from 800 AD, and this impacts the JPS of 1917:

In the DSS, verse 8 reads:

8 From detention and judgment he was taken away. [CT] And who can even think about his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living, [D] he was stricken for the transgression of my people

CT means that part is comprehensible in DSS but not in the jPS. D means deleted in the JPS.

The JPS reads:

8. By oppression and judgment he was taken away, [IT] And with his generation who did reason? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, For the transgression of my people [D] [missing] [A] to whom the stroke was due.

IT means an incomprehensible translation. D means missing. A is added.

Verse 9 of the DSS is the same essentially as JPS. DSS v 9 reads:

9 Then they made his grave with the wicked and with rich people his tomb although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Verse 10 reads very different in DSS than the JPS. The DSS v 10 reads:

10 Yet it was YHWH / the LORD was willing to crush him and he made him suffer. Although you make his soul an offering for sin, and he will see his offspring, and he will prolong his days, and the will of YHWH / the LORD will triumph in his hand.

Verse 10 in the JPS reads:

10 Yet it pleased the LORD to crush him by disease; To see if his soul would offer itself in restitution, That he might see his seed, prolong his days, And that the purpose of the LORD might prosper by his hand:

This no longer can be about Jesus as he is diseased (rather than suffering), and God is testing to see whether this person would offer himself as 'restitution,' so the man may see "his seed"-- as if having children is a reward if the person does indeed offer himself up.

Verse 11 is another verse in the DSS that was worked over by the Masoretic text of 800 AD that underlies the JPS.

Here is v 11 in the DSS:

11 Out of the suffering of his soul he will see [D] light and [a] find satisfaction; And through his knowledge, his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.

D means deleted in Masoretic text. [a] is a marker for what appears to be the explanation for [a] in the JPS.

The JPS reads:

11. Of the travail of his soul he shall see [a] to the full, even [C] My servant, Who by his knowledge did justify the Righteous One [N.B disjoins servant from R.O.; none made righteous other than RO] to the many, And their iniquities he did bear.

This "light"was deleted, whether accidentally or deliberately no one knows -- this figure will suffer but see "light" later -- supporting the idea of a resurrection.

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