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AnswerNo, biblical scholars do not see Isaiah chapter 53 as prophetic. They say it was written in Babylon by an anonymous author now known as Second Isaiah, whose work was later added to the older Book of Isaiah.

Chapter 13 should be read as a continuation from verses 52:13-15, in which God speaks of his suffering servant. The Book of Isaiah originally did not have chapter breaks, and the decision to place the break after 52:15 was made by the Christian Church because it obscured the preceding text.

In fact, this is called the fourth Servant Song. It is unclear whether, in this case, the author is spaking of one person or of the nation of Israel, but 52:14 talks of him in the same time period as the author, not as a person of the distant future. Read with the objective eye of a scholar, it can be seen that the author was talking about the troubles the people had sufferred in Babylon and an oracle for their future.

However, Christian tradition has made this a prophecy of Jesus. Although that was not the intention of the author, this view would make Isaiah 53 a highly prophetic chapter.

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