Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World (Biblia.com)

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Comparable in scope to Johannes Lindblom’s Prophecy in Ancient Israel, this book offers the first comprehensive treatment in English of the place of prophecy in the New Testament period. Because early Christianity was the product of Western as well as Eastern religious and cultural traditions, David Aune begins by examining the antecedents of early Christian prophecy. He describes Greco-Roman...

Another passage quoted in the same regard is Seder Olam Rabbah 30: Until then, the prophets prophesied by means of the holy spirit. From then on, give ear and listen to the words of the sages.3 Both passages identify the “holy spirit” with the prophetic activity of the canonical prophets, for in Rabbinic Judaism the “holy spirit” was virtually synonymous with prophecy.4 The first passage emphasizes the view that divine revelation continued in Judaism, though in a different form. The medium of revelation

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