Suffering Servant

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Biblical Archetype

Heroes who belong to this pattern undergo undeserved suffering and as a result bring about good for other people.

Joseph (Genesis 37-50) is the earliest example of the suffering servant biblical archetype.

(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. The Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken, Page 131)