from what the sources inform us about the persons in question. We have already noted that, as a rule, people who transmit divine words that allegedly derive from direct communication with a deity are called by modern interpreters prophets, whatever the original designation may be. All visionaries and dreamers cannot be lumped together as “prophets,” though, but the line between prophets and other practitioners of noninductive divination is difficult to draw and may be partly artificial. As a result,