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

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34. Again you are speaking of "The Book of Isaiah" as if it is a singular production

It is not. (I will deal with your previous post to me on return from work)

It is not even the production of several people alive at the same time. It was also edited by various groups to fit their preconceptions.

Some of "Isaiah" deals with the tribes of Israel and the threats they faced from the local military "super powers". Some of it deals with the Babylonian captivity and some deals with the return from Babylon. The whole was "corrected" by various editors to fit the idea of a single dominant deity and to subvert the polytheism of Judea that Josiah and his successors were attempting to hide. It is not hard to draw parallels between the events that the Isaiahs were describing and events from similar periods of Judean history when the tiny nation was similarly under threat and then conquered. Given the later Diaspora imposed by the Romans on the Jewish peoples, the works called Isaiah could be seen again as prophetic, although written about a different exile and a different set of sects opposed by the editors.

Next "John", which one? St John of the Gospel? St John the Divine of Revelation? They are almost certainly not the same person. Although both were written after the Roman destruction of the Temple, it is even possible that the core of "Revelation" was written prior to the Gospel: but the same contorted reasoning as applied to Isaiah is required to produce elements from them relevant to modern life.