Max Botner on Translating Isaiah 53

Isaiah 53 is a well beloved passage of Scripture, but it is not an easy text to translate.
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There is also the important dimension of poetry within the text, with artful, meaningful ambiguity as a literary device. Is the text of Isaiah in Hebrew trying to put out a doctrine? Is the LXX interested in shaping a doctrine? Or are they both painting an impressionist portrait? The Hebrew probably so, and the Greek inviting something like a messianic reading, maybe…