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Passion/Palm Sunday
Preaching
Preaching And Reading The Old Testament Lessons
With an Eye to the New
As is well known, the text forms the third of the four Servant Songs that are found in the prophecies of Second Isaiah. Some scholars have maintained that the songs are later additions to the material, but rhetorical analysis has revealed that the songs are an integral and indispensable part of Second Isaiah's message. The whole, made up of Isaiah 40--55, was delivered to the Israelite exiles in Babylonia, sometime between 550 and 538 B.C.
