Was prophecy in israel a unique feature?

Prophesy was nt unique in israel some schorlas said it borrowed from ancient near eastern countries like mesophotamia,egypt etc.the ancient near eastern countries said to hav prophets before israel became a nation eg legend of wen-amon,zimri-limetc

Prophecy in Israel may have been copied from the Ancient Near East countries in the sense that the spectators who saw that boy Wen Amon prophesying ecstatically may have copied this from him. Also the dating may support my answer. This story of Wen Amon took place at around 1100BC but prophecy in Israel started at around 1000-900 BC so there are high chances that the Israelites copied this type of prophecy from the ANE countries.

Prophecy in Israel may have been copied from the Ancient Near East countries in the sense that the spectators who saw that boy Wen Amon prophesying ecstatically may have copied this from him. Also the dating may support my answer. This story of Wen Amon took place at around 1100BC but prophecy in Israel started at around 1000-900 BC so there are high chances that the Israelites copied this type of prophecy from the ANE countries.

Since this theory is controversial,LINT-BLOAM states that no on e knows when prophecy stared for it had been a world-wild phenomenom. He sited that if we are to say it originated with kingship we will be mislading ourselves since it also existed in th ancient near east

Also the legend of zimri-lim supports the theory prophecy as a borrowed phenomenon

The prophecy in israel can be viewed as a borrowed feature since on the legend of wen amom ,wen amon went to bablos in search of timber to built a temple for his god amon ree .when he reached babylos the prince was offering to his god and he ignores wen amon's request.the youth which is believed to have been under ecstacy demanded the prince to give wen amon his request .the aspect of forthtelling ,ecstacy was copied by the israelites from ANE

Prophecy in ancient Israel was unique in the sense that it is believed t[i]o have evolved from the office of a seer .This is supported by 1 Samuel 9:9 ,therefore it will be wrong to say prophecy was borrowed when it originated in Israel

It may be concluded that nothing can be known about where, who and when prophecy started because in the basic text which we use (bible) it does not state thatMoses, Samuel or Abraham is the first prophet. On the issue of being borrowed from ANE it is a debatable issue because one can argue that similarities does not mean Israel borrowed the concerpt N.B Some features can not be borrowed e.g. Ecstacy is elf experience that one can not borrow for example in ! Samuel 10:10 Saul was not a prophet but he became ecstatic showing that ecstacy is contagious. Finaly it can be said prophecy in Israel and ANE grew side by side

I think prophecy originated with Moses ,Samuel only perpetuated what was started by Moses.The defination of a prophet brought forward by Lindblorm accommodates Abraham and others but the fact that Moses was the founder of prophecy sounds convincing .,he founded the sinaic covenant which acted as a binding factor between Yahweh and his ,he was undoubtedly a monotheist and denounced the worship of Baal ,Moses became a figure which symbolised all the ancient isralite prophets hence it can be noted that no messenger before after embodied such characteristics .

Prophecy in Israel was unique as most of the prophets received a special call from Yahweh ie call of Samuel. Unique phenomenon come as these prophets practised monotheism (the worship of one God) whereas those in ANE practised polytheism

Schoolars had battled much on the origin of prophecy in Israel.However it can be noted that this was a unique feature of the Israel religion if one looks at the Abrahimic theory,Mosiac theory,only to mention but a few.

To begin with,prohecy in Israel was a unique feature of the religion that rose among the Israelites.This can be extraordinary from the covenant which Yahweh made with Abraham.Yahweh proved to Abraham that he was the God of promises through the so called" covenant".This became the most common feature of the religion that Yahweh worked through covenants ,thus prophets rose as covenant mediators.Moses,Elijah and other later prophets acted as covenant mediators.Therefore prophecy in Israel was unique.

Prophecy originated in Israel. Moses is regarded as the father of all prophets ( Duet 18:18 & 34) . The text indicate that prophecy originated in Israel with Moses being the originator .