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According to I [[Books of Samuel|Samuel]] 9:9, the old name for navi is ro'eh, ראה, which literally means "[[See]]r". That could document an ancient shift, from viewing prophets as seers for hire to viewing them as moral teachers. Allen (1971) comments that in the First Temple Era, there were essentially seer-priests, who formed a guild, divined, performed rituals and sacrifices, and were scribes, and then there were canonical prophets, who did none of these (and were against divination) and had instead a message to deliver. The seer-priests were usually attached to a local shrine or temple, such as Shiloh, and initiated others as priests in that priesthood: it was a mystical craft-guild with apprentices and recruitment. Canonical prophets were not organised this way. The similar term "ben-navi" ("son of the prophet") means "member of a seer-priest guild".

According to I [[Books of Samuel|Samuel]] 9:9, the old name for navi is ro'eh, ראה, which literally means "[[See]]r". That could document an ancient shift, from viewing prophets as seers for hire to viewing them as moral teachers. Allen (1971) comments that in the First Temple Era, there were essentially seer-priests, who formed a guild, divined, performed rituals and sacrifices, and were scribes, and then there were canonical prophets, who did none of these (and were against divination) and had instead a message to deliver. The seer-priests were usually attached to a local shrine or temple, such as Shiloh, and initiated others as priests in that priesthood: it was a mystical craft-guild with apprentices and recruitment. Canonical prophets were not organised this way. The similar term "ben-navi" ("son of the prophet") means "member of a seer-priest guild".

Some examples of prophets in the [[Tanakh]] (Hebrew Bible)  include [[Abraham]], [[Sarah]], [[Isaiah]], [[Samuel (biblical figure)|Samuel]], [[Ezekiel]], [[Malachi]], and  [[Job (Biblical figure)|Job]]. In Jewish tradition, [[Daniel]] is not counted in the list of prophets.  

Some examples of prophets in the [[Tanakh]] include [[Abraham]], [[Sarah]], [[Isaiah]], [[Samuel]], [[Ezekiel]], [[Malachi]], and  [[Job]]. In Jewish tradition, [[Daniel]] is not counted in the list of prophets.  

A Jewish tradition suggests 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.[http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/12-11.html] 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 (given name)|Hannah]] (mother of the ''prophet'' [[Samuel (Bible)|Samuel]]), [[Abigail]] (a wife of [[King David]]), [[Huldah]] (from the time of [[Jeremiah (prophet)|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.

A Jewish tradition suggests 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.[http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/12-11.html] 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 (given name)|Hannah]] (mother of the ''prophet'' [[Samuel (Bible)|Samuel]]), [[Abigail]] (a wife of [[King David]]), [[Huldah]] (from the time of [[Jeremiah (prophet)|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.