Some of the chapters previously appeared in Der leidende Gottesknecht, Jesaja 53 und seine Wirkungsgeschichte, Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 14, Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 1996, and appear in this volume in translation and with additions and revisions by the authors and the translator.
The conception and prehistory of the idea of vicarious suffering in the Old Testament by Hermann Spieckermann previously appeared in Congress Volume: Cambridge 1995, Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; 66, Leiden : Brill, 1997, and appears here in translation.