I never heard of any female prophets and i was just wondering!!!! not that i am questioning God but i was just wondering what people think about this.
2007-02-14 08:55:57 · 21 answers · asked by Dirty 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are lots of woman prophets in the Bible; heck, Debra was a judge and a prophet.
I should say "prophetess", I suppose.
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2007-02-14 09:17:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"A Jewish tradition holds that there were 600,000 male and 600,000 female prophets. Judaism recognizes the existence of 48 male prophets who bequeathed permanent messages to mankind.[1] According to the Talmud there were also seven women who are counted as prophets whose message bears relevance for all generations: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah (mother of the prophet Samuel), Abigail (a wife of King David), Huldah (from the time of Jeremiah), and Esther. There were, of course, other women who functioned as prophets, and the last prophet mentioned in the Bible, Noahdiah (Nehemiah 6:14) was a woman."
christians may have a different opinion on who exactly the prophets are, however.
2007-02-14 17:14:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Never?" Read it again.
Exodus 15:20 -- Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron,...
Judges 4:4 -- Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
2 Kings 22:14 -- So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. (She dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter.) And they spoke with her. {also in 2Ch 34:22}
Isaiah 8:3 -- Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son....
Luke 2:36 -- Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;
2007-02-14 17:39:22 · answer #3 · answered by BC 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Deborah (book of Judges, chapter 5) and Huldah. I think there was at least one other. You can look up those two names in a concordance.
In the New Testament, the daughters of Phillip were prophetesses.
Possibly no book of the Bible was written by a woman because God knew people of that day would not have tended to give credence to it? The only reason I can think of. Christianity has been a liberating force for women. Other religions and cultures used them for labour and sex and child bearing, as well as for economic exchange. Christ treated women as people, as equals, and chose a woman to be the first to bear the good news of the resurrection.
2007-02-14 17:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Exo 15:20 And the sister of Aaron, Miriam the prophetess, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Jdg 4:4 And Deborah the wife of Lapidoth, a woman prophetess, was judging Israel at that time.
2Ki 22:14 And Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went to Huldah the prophetess the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe (and she lived in Jerusalem, in the second quarter ). And they spoke with her.
2007-02-14 17:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
that's because they're called prophetesses.
look at Mariam, Moses' sister. she's creditted as the first prophetess.
there are modern day ones. I just don't know the name of any prophets/prophetesses. But women of faith are usually more common than men these days.
God isn't sexist (no matter what people lead you to believe). God can use anyone who is willing.
2007-02-14 17:04:46 · answer #6 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some say that Mary Magdalene was a prophet. But the christian religion was mainly decided by the roman catholics. They choose what to put in the bible and what would be worshiped. They decided women were a power they could not control so they set out to belittle them.
2007-02-14 17:02:50 · answer #7 · answered by harmony moon 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Philippians 4:2: Paul refers to two women, Euodia and Syntyche, as coworkers who were active evangelicals, spreading the gospel.
There are many more both in the OT and the NT search wikipaedia
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2007-02-14 17:12:11 · answer #8 · answered by pooterilgatto 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is alot in the old testament catholics believe alot of saints who had prophetic messages are considered prophets: St. Mary Jaheny, Bl. Ana Tiagi, St. Catherine of siena and so on.
2007-02-14 17:01:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
in ancient times many (if not most) of the prophets were in fact prophetesses. check out the Sibyls for example:-->
2007-02-14 17:14:50 · answer #10 · answered by waif 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋