Jews.. are there possible more prophets then mentioned in the tanakh?

Question

i read that in the talmud it says there were 1.2 million prophets all together. is this true?

also, how old is the beloved talmud?

and could prophets like lord kirhsna of hinduism and the buddha been prophets?

Answer 1

Absolutely! We believe each generation has a fixed number of righteous men who go around the world moving in the prophetic, in blessings, cursings, the miraculous.
Remember, G-d said He would never leave us.
As Jews, we believe in what are called Tzadikkim; men of righteousness who live in humility & travel the world teaching by example; not men of fame or recognition, but of a genuine closeness with G-d. These men are specifically for the people of Israel, but will reach out to any person genuinely seeking truth.

Answer 2

Wow, we get into the fun of people with no possible way of knowing the answer answwering.

Anyways, Judaism believes prophecy was taken out of the world after the prophet Malachi because G-d desires to maintain man's free will. If he has as obvious a proof of his existence as prophecy in the world, he puts in the world a disproof just as strong so people can chose to do right or wrong. If people knew 100% G-d existed they couldn't chose to do evil for the same reason you can't chose to steal if you know the shopkeaper sees you and has a loaded gun.

Man came to a point though where the evil counterfit was so strong, that there wouldn't be any believers left, so G_d took it out of the world, and took prophecy too.

So we don't believe there are any prophets after those mentioned in Tanakh. There were many many more during the times of Tanakh then just the few mentioned, as the Tanakh itself says. This fellow hid some prophets from Ahab, Saul went to Ploni place and met some prophets. They were around.

The Talmud is 1500 years old about. In its present organization with standardized type face, and page numbers, it is about 300 years old. The Talmud is the most standardized religious text in the world, so that if you take page 9 in the first Tractate in any Talmud, count five letters over, it is the same in every talmud. THis system was developed in the Russian city of Vilna maybe 300 years ago.

About those other people, we have a tradition that there were only a few prophets among the nations: Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Bilaam and Job. Of those, Bilaam had the highest revelation, though he was the most evil. The Talmud says he was the equall in prophecy to Moses.

Answer 3

I have a follow up questions for sawyer - must those prophets necessaily be jewish ? and if so why? how can they be prophets to the many many parts of the world where jews dont live?

Answer 4

No.

All who tell of the Prophetic Word are prophets!

""could prophets like lord kirhsna of hinduism and the buddha been prophets?""

NOPE!