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Once we apprehend the structure of crisis and collective lynching in Second Isaiah, we understand also that it constitutes, just as in the life and death of Jesus in the Gospels, what I call a mimetic cycle. The initial proliferation of scandals leads sooner or later into an acute crisis at the climax of which unanimous violence is set off against the single victim, the victim finally selected by the entire community. This event reestablishes the former order or establishes a new one out of the old. Then the new order itself is destined someday to enter into crisis, and so on.
