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

[Thats my opinion]

41. I think both of you have made some serious points.

As a member of the Westar Institute, formerly the Jesus Seminar, I tend to take the scholarship produced there seriously. But there is plenty of room for a variety of opinions.

Certainly here were those in the late part of the first Christian century who believed they could cite Isaiah 53 as a prophecy related to Jesus--and even Isaiah 7:14. But the argument I made earlier says, even so, you cannot say from the point of history of Isaiah that he was talking about Jesus.

Also perhaps one of the Isaiahs, as well as other non-Biblical prophets, believed that God would bring about a peaceful rule sometime in the future. That is not optimism. It is hope, and there is a considerable difference. But neither is it making a specific prediction about a specific event.