Do the Jews believe in prophets?

Answer 1

Jews consider Moses the greatest of the prophets, but Jews also consider many others to have been prophets. Noah, Abraham, Aaron and Miriam, for example, have prophetic stature because each of them is supposed to have spoken directly with God. The later biblical prophets like Ezekiel and Isaiah are definitely also considered prophets by the Jews.

Answer 2

There are several Jewish prophets, but the greatest of all was Moses. Jews revere him but we don't worship him; we are not allowed to worship anyone other than G-d.

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Here are some other Major Prophets:

Joshua [יהושוע)

Samuel [שמואל]

Isaiah [ישעיהו]

Jeremiah [ירמיהו]

Ezekiel [יחזקאל]

Hoshea [הושע]

Joel or Yo'el [יואל]

Amos [עמוס]

Obadiah or Ovadyah [עובדיה]

Jonah or Yonah [יונה]

Micah or Mikhah [מיכה]

Nahum or Nachum [נחום]

Habakkuk or Habaquq [חבקוק]

Zephaniah or Tsefania [צפניה]

Haggai or Haggai [חגי]

Zechariah Zekharia [זכריה]

Malachi or Malakhi [מלאכי]

Answer 3

Some Jews may regard Jesus as a teacher, but certainly not a prophet. In truth, at most, he is considered a false prophet by the majority of Jews.

Answer 2

Judaism teaches absolutely nothing about Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, or the leaders of any other non-Jewish religion.

Answer 3

Yes some, they are called 'Messianic Jews.' And not only a prophet but the last and greatest prophet, the Messiah, the Son of God.

Answer 4

Yes the Jewish religion has several very famous prophets some of which have books of The Bible (Tanach) assigned to them.

Here is a list of some major Jewish prophets:

Joshua [יהושוע)

Samuel [שמואל]

Isaiah [ישעיהו]

Jeremiah [ירמיהו]

Ezekiel [יחזקאל]

Hoshea [הושע]

Joel or Yo'el [יואל]

Amos [עמוס]

Obadiah or Ovadyah [עובדיה]

Jonah or Yonah [יונה]

Micah or Mikhah [מיכה]

Nahum or Nachum [נחום]

Habakkuk or Habaquq [חבקוק]

Zephaniah or Tsefania [צפניה]

Haggai or Haggai [חגי]

Zechariah Zekharia [זכריה]

Malachi or Malakhi [מלאכי]

Answer 5

Judaism holds Moses to be the greatest prophet, and in some senses the founder of the Jewish people. He is most notable for leading the Hebrews out of Egypt and receiving the Torah from God at Mt. Sinai, establishing Mosaic Law.

Extra-Biblical Jewish writings give much other information about Moses. For example, he is described as the humblest man ever, in the sense that he knew both his importance and subservience to God. Jewish lore also says that he had a stutter (the Egyptians had made him put a hot coal in his mouth as a child, to see if God would protect him from harm) and that Aaron did much of the talking with Pharaoh, Moses telling him what to say.

Answer 6

Neither prophet nor false prophet, since Jesus is never quoted (in the N.T.) as saying "thus spoke the Lord to me" and since Jewish tradition places the end of prophecy over three centuries before his time. See also:

What do Jews believe about Jesus?

Answer 7

NO. Jews do not believe that Jesus was a prophet; in fact, Jesus is completely irrelevant to Judaism. This is in much the same way that Muhammad and Buddha are completely irrelevant to Christianity. While "Messianic Jews" believe in Jesus, the Messianic Jews are actually much better understood as a Protestant Denomination than a form of Judaism. Their beliefs are derived from general Protestant doctrines with a resurgence of Jewish ritual practice as opposed to Jewish beliefs with a Christian Messiah concept grafted on.

Jewish Issues with Claims of Jesus' Prophecies
Jesus performed no act of prophecy from the Jewish perspective. Unlike Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, he did not come to common places and reveal what God had told him. The first three objections apply to the Christian and Islamic Claims that Jesus is a Prophet and the second three objections apply exclusively to the Islamic Claim. For issues relating to Jesus not being the Jewish Messiah, which is a different rank than prophet, please see this related question: Why is Jesus not the Jewish Messiah?

1) Healing of the Sick: Jesus moved in secret, healed the sick, and did other small miracles. Those things are certainly nice, but they do not rise to the level of prophecy. There were a number of soothsayers and faith healers in Ancient Israel, but they too were never considered prophets. Prophecy requires communication with God and public revelation of what was said.

2) Virgin Birth: Being born of a virgin birth is not relevant to being a prophet from a Jewish perspective (as it is not an act of communication with God). It is not seen as a miracle indicating any holiness of the child so conceived and, additionally, it is not even relevant to being a Messiah. The Christian prophecy of Immanuel is taken entirely out of context based on a mistranslation. Matthew, a Greek-speaking Jew, was looking for a biblical reference he could use to prove that Jesus was prophesied to be born of a virgin. The Septuagint. a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, incorrectly translated Isaiah 7:14 to say that a virgin (parthenos in Greek - betulah in Hebrew) would conceive and bear a child, whereas it should have said a "young woman" (almah in Hebrew). To put it into context, in Isaiah Chapter 7, King Ahaz of Judah was threatened by the two Kings of Syria (Pekah and Retsin). Isaiah made a promise that by the time this young woman (not virgin) had a son and named him Immanuel, that the crisis would have abated and the situation resolved itself. 2 Kings Chapters 15-16, shows that within several months of the crisis beginning the two Syrian Kings were assassinated and the problem abated. This prophesy of Isaiah's has nothing to do with the Messiah or making Jesus' birth special.

3) Prophecy of the Second Coming: Judaism holds that the entire concept of a Second Coming is a violation of Jewish Teaching, which holds that the Messiah just comes once. It was added by Christianity so that they could explain why it was that Jesus completely failed to achieve any of the major Messianic benchmarks while he lived.

4) Revelation of the Gospel: From the Jewish and Christian perspective, Jesus had no hand in writing the Gospels; they were written by Christian followers of Jesus. As a result, if anyone was to be considered prophetic for writing the Gospels, it should be Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, not Jesus. The Islamic counterpoint to this was that the original Gospel written by Jesus as a Holy Book sent to him by God has been edited and changed. Jews see this as further evidence of the incorrectness of the Islamic position if only because they are claiming that they believe in something that they cannot actually demonstrate even exists (the original Injil) and then ask Jews to believe in it too.

5) Prophecy of Muhammad's Arrival: Concerning the arrival of Muhammad, this would be a false prophecy (if it were a prophecy at all) because of the cardinal rule that no prophet could come after Malachi unless it is the Messiah. As a result, in Jewish thought, Muhammad could not have had access to prophecy unless he were the Messiah, which Jews and Muslims both agree he was not. Since Muhammad was not the Messiah according to the definition set in the "Messianic Failures" section, prophetic revelation ended with Malachi. As a result, even if we suspend the rule in Jesus' case and say that Jesus could have prophecy (which is also barred by this rule), the prophecy that he had, the arrival of Muhammad, would have been a prophecy in direct contradiction to established Divine Will and therefore it would have been a false prophecy.

6) Jesus was Not Crucified: Avoiding death, even by a miracle, does not make the person who avoided death into a prophet. For example, in the Book of Daniel, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are all cast into the fiery kiln where they should have died. They were all miraculously saved from death. However, only Daniel is considered a prophet, on account of prophecies elsewhere in the book. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are not considered prophets because they performed no act of prophesy; their "only" credentials were that they were miraculously saved from death.

Answer 8

There is no one prophet in Judaism. There were many prophets mentioned in the Bible, but there haven't been any Jewish prophets in more than 2100 years.

Answer 9

Jews believe in One God, who created all things.

Some fifty-five prophets and prophetesses are named in the Tanakh (Jewish Bible).

Answer 10

That he was an ordinary person - not a prophet.