Timeline for Were there more than seven prophetesses?
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| Dec 2, 2016 at 4:15 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | Yerushalmi Berakhot 9:3 ואמר רבי יהודה בן פזי בשם דבית רבי ינאי אמנו רחל מנביאות הראשונות היתה. אמרה עוד אחר יהיה ממני. הדא הוא דכתיב יוסף ה' לי בן אחר. בנים אחרים לא אמרה. אלא עוד אחר יהי' ממני. | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 19:24 | comment | added | Lee | Targum Yonathan on Bereshit 27:5 (link) states Rivqah received רוח הקודש. Or HaḤayim on the same pasuq plainly writes that Rivqah was a prophetess. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 16:30 | comment | added | HaLeiVi | It seems that להשיח is not prophecy because the Medrash says never while we find seven. In this case it was a conversation. | |
| Nov 3, 2015 at 14:48 | history | edited | Loewian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2012 at 3:40 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | An interesting point. If the list was a minimum why fight so hard to keep Rivkah off it when she is almost explicitly written in the psukim. (As for Hagar, I don't see why God's talking to her makes her any more of a "Navi" than Lavan.) | |
| Jul 12, 2012 at 3:26 | history | answered | josh waxman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |