Endnote 10 – Who Wrote Second Isaiah?

A seemingly insuperable obstacle to this theory is the fact that the first-person Isaiah 49:1–3 explicitly calls the servant “Israel.” Rabban regards the prophet as a megalomaniac who claimed to embody the entire nation, at least regarding their relationship to God. But this remains a clear weakness in Rabban’s argument and in all efforts to identify the servant as an individual.