established earlier teaching.105 Some later rabbis dated the departure of the Holy Spirit to the destruction of the temple,106 or to the time of Jeremiah, with minor exceptions,107 but the net effect was the same: the Spirit of prophecy had ceased to be available in their own time. This departure has been widely noted by modern scholars.108 This does not, of course, mean that revelations were not available, for as t. Soṭa 13:3 (quoted above) and many of the other texts argue, the heavenly voice (bat