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Although the Talmud states that only “48 prophets and 7 prophetesses prophesied to Israel”, [6] it does not mean that there were only 55 prophets. The Talmud challenges this with other examples, and concludes by citing a Baraita tradition that the number of prophets in the era of prophecy was double the number of Israelites who left Egypt ...
King Jeroboam of Israel, prophecy of Ahijah c. 913 BC–c. 910 BC [citation needed] King Asa of Judah. prophecies of Elijah, Micaiah, and Elisha. c. 837 BC–c. 800 BC [citation needed] King Joash of Judah. prophecy of Jonah [1] during the time of Babylonian captivity, though dating of the book ranges from the 6th to the late 3rd century BC.
List of Prophets. Prophets in Judaism; Prophets of Christianity. List of Book of Mormon prophets; Prophets and messengers in Islam. Prophethood (Ahmadiyya)
Judgment on Israel – Ezekiel makes a series of denunciations against his fellow Judeans , warning them of the certain destruction of Jerusalem, in opposition to the words of the false prophets . The symbolic acts, by which the extremities to which Jerusalem would be reduced are described in Chapters 4 and 5 , show his intimate acquaintance ...
Ezra, Nehemiah and Zerubbabel, prophets and leaders of the Babylonian captivity and Return to Zion; Elijah and Elisha, important prophets who rebuked the kings of Israel; Elkanah and Hannah, parents of the judge and prophet Samuel; Esther and Mordechai, Persian queen, and her cousin, saviors of the Jews on Purim
Prophets according to Judaism and its texts, individuals who are regarded as being in contact with a divine being and are said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.
The Messiah in Judaism means anointed one; it included Jewish priests, prophets and kings such as David and Cyrus the Great. [1] Later, especially after the failure of the Hasmonean Kingdom (37 BCE) and the Jewish–Roman wars (66–135 CE), the figure of the Jewish Messiah was one who would deliver the Jews from oppression and usher in an Olam HaBa ("world to come"), the Messianic Age.
It includes every article that makes use of Template:Prophets in the Hebrew Bible unless it incorporates the following extended code: {{Prophets in the Hebrew Bible | categories=no}} For the purposes of Wikipedia categories , "Hebrew Bible" refers only to those books in the Jewish Tanakh , which has the same content as the Protestant Old ...