The Prophets Guild

by LockedChaos 2 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • LockedChaos
    LockedChaos

    Just started reading a commentary on Revelation

    (Actually still in the introduction, firehose indeed!)

    I ran across the term "Prophets Guild" in referance

    to Hebrew prophets in particular and all prophets in general

    Also that "group" prophesy was quite the norm

    I have no question, per se, but just a curosity for the time

    (I did order a book "The Hebrew Prophets" by Newsome,

    but it's in my reading cue a bit down the road)

    Anyone wish to comment or have any insight into this topic

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    Was this Prophets Guild something like School of the Prophets at Mt. Carmel?

  • Narkissos
    Narkissos

    Inferring from similar expressions in French, I would suppose that "Prophets Guild" is a popular translation/explanation of the phrase "the sons of the prophets" and more broadly applies to the early kind of Israelite "prophetism" portrayed in Samuel-Kings (implying communal life, ecstatic phenomena, identification rituals, and so on).

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