Does the book of Isaiah say anything about Jesus of Nazareth?

[Ezlivin]

19. We covered it all

Exhaustively. History was a big part because context was important. As you know, a number of portions of the bible are long, boring passages concerning genealogy and some books in the O.T. are so full of symbolism and bizarre events (Ezekiel comes to mind) that we didn't focus on them as much.

There were two career tracks; one required Hebrew and Greek, the other didn't. Many seminary students opted to take the non-language track (typically because they already "knew" what the bible said). Well, that and the fact that it was a hell of a lot harder!

I took the language track and that required one year of Hebrew and two years of Greek. We were required to diagram sentences and do translations, so it wasn't just a simple introduction to the language(s). Yet by no means did this make one a language scholar, obviously. It did serve to awaken one to the difficulties in transliterating between Hebrew/Greek and English.

I suspect that the seminary students that took the language track were the ones who could more easily question many of the positions held by conservatives.