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No Old Testament book literally refers to Jesus, and there is no actual prophecy of him or of his crucifixion.

But Burton L. Mack describes a trick that can be used to make any Old Testament book say what you want it to say. By this means, books such as Genesis, Isaiah and Daniel have been made to prophesy Jesus. Mack says in Who Wrote the New Testament that at first the study of a text may not seem to support a traditional Christian conviction, or the answer one hopes to find in The Bible. But with a little ingenuity, one can set up the comparison again with other emphases and make the answer come out right. This trick seems to come naturally when studying the Bible, and Mack sees it happen all the time in the classrooms of the School of Theology at Claremont.

Following these simple rules, you can have as many prophecies of th crucifixion of Jesus as you wish. Some see Isaiah chapter 53 as a prophecy of the crucifixion, because it mentions death and suffering. This was actually written about a "suffering servant" before and after the time of writing and does not mention Jesus or the crucifixion. In fact, it can not be a reference to Jesus, because verse 10 talks about the servant seeing his children, and Jesus is believed not to have had children.

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A:Depending on faith, you could find anything between no prophecy to simply thousands of prophecies of Jesus in the Old Testament. Burton L. Mack (Who Wrote the New Testament) says that when looking for prophecies, one can ask any question of the Bible and get some kind of answer. If the first answer does not appear to be helpful, one can look for another answer to the same question, until the right answer appears. Sometimes, different people even identify the same passage as prophesying different future events!

There is no clear, direct prophecy about Jesus in the Bible, but if you follow Mack's method, you should be able to find to your own satisfaction quite a few prophecies of the death of Jesus.

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