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

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27. The site you so proudly promote

Is pure apologetics - if there can be such a thing given the ridiculous extents that such persons go to to justify the unjustifiable. I have looked there in the past and found it useless,

Now let's get on to Isaiah. You are quite happy to that there was not one prophet but at least 3. You also seem quite happy that these words, and much of the rest of the OT, were edited and redacted by many sources to accord with the new theology promoted by the court of Josiah. There had to be such editing of Isaiah because those first 39 chapters are about a polytheist Judea. There is further evidence of such editing during the period of the Maccabees. It is interesting that the earliest sample of Isaiah that we have date from that later period.

The point here is that editing like this will produce a unity in the overall narrative as well as self referential similarities between supposed prophecies. Such editing over time will also leave a vast number contradictions, such as those found within the text of the Bible.

A similar process can be observed in the cannon of other composite works; a perfect example is the Arthurian stories. From Gildas through Froissart and Mallory folk tales and stories of local gods and heroes were massaged to fit into coherent narratives about a dark age warlord. Then there came the massive reinvention of the late 18th and 19th century where the need for a unifying British identity produced the vast numbers of glosses upon these.

Sorry but the prophecies you trumpet are not worth the paper they were (much later) written upon