Those claimants were not judged as crazy. They were able to prove their claims.
Ok I'll bite.....ummmm, sorry but most of the prophets were not able to prove their claims at the time, that is why they call it prophesying. So beyond that point these ones were not a well liked group! Normally they were not excepted into the Jewish Society at the time, since they were usually telling everyone that they were bad and going to be destroyed! So the mainstream would just lable them as nuts.
But you are looking at the Bible in the eyes of faith, I am looking at it with the eyes of reality. The world I live in people that make these claims do have a mental illness. Just because it was written down a long time ago doesn't change the fact that these ones may think they have talked to God, but in reality it was just in their head!
Even the Society says that prophecy is understood fully, only after the event!
Kudra anytime you need a stiffy just call!!