Talk:Isa 27:6-10
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Scapegoat (v. 9)?
I haven't really found anything on this scapegoat idea, so maybe I'm way off, but it looks like a pretty clear allusion on my reading. In fact, I suspect there is a play on the remnant idea. Aren't there similarities between the scapegoat and Israel being driven into the wilderness? My sense is that the purpose and meaning of the scapegoat ritual (Lev 16) is a very open question. Perhaps Lev 16 is a better place to take up this question. The relevance here of course is that the smiting and slaying mentioned in verse 7 (I'm not convinced anyone I've read has really gotten the right reading of this) seems significantly related to this expiation in verse 9.... --RobertC 14:55, 21 Oct 2006 (UTC)
