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Journal Article
The Attitude of Medieval Jewish Philosophers to the Phenomenon of Female Prophecy
2017
Overview
Little has been written about the attitudes of medieval Jewish philosophers towards the phenomenon of women prophets. Among the qualities essential for a prophet, medieval philosophers highlighted intellectual perfection as the foremost prerequisite. At the same time, these philosophers generally labeled women as intellectually deficient by definition. Consequently, the axiomatic equation of a prophet with a philosopher generated an apparently unresolvable problem in the case of women prophets. Within these constraints, medieval philosophers still had to confront the question of women prophets, as the Hebrew Bible emphatically pointed at three of its heroines—Miriam, Deborah, and Huldah—as among those through whom God had chosen to speak. This article deals with the surprising treatment of the issue by central representatives of medieval Jewish thought.
