Table Of Prophets Of Abrahamic Religions
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This is an incomplete table containing prophets, sometimes called messengers, of the
Abrahamic religions The term Abrahamic religions is used to group together monotheistic religions revering the Biblical figure Abraham, namely Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The religions share doctrinal, historical, and geographic overlap that contrasts them wit ...
.In Judaism and Islam the classification of some people as prophets includes those who are not explicitly called so in the
Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Quran The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...
. Judaism also uses religious texts other than the Hebrew Bible to define prophets. Moreover, Orthodox rabbis use different criteria for classifying someone as a prophet, e.g. Enoch is not considered a prophet in Judaism. The New Testament may call someone a prophet even though they are not so classified in the
Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Books of the Bible A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible. The English word ''canon'' comes from the Greek , meaning ' rule' or ' measuring stick'. The us ...
* List of burial places of Abrahamic figures *
List of founders of religious traditions These are historical figures credited with founding religions or religious philosophies, or who codified older known religious traditions. The list includes those who have founded a specific major denomination within a larger religion. Legend ...
* People of the Book List of Prophets *
Prophets in Judaism According to the Talmud, there were 48 prophets and 7 prophetesses of Judaism ( ''Nəvīʾīm'', Tiberian: ''Năḇīʾīm,'' "Prophets", literally "spokespersons"). The last Jewish prophet is believed to have been Malachi. In Jewish tradition i ...
* Prophets of Christianity ** List of Book of Mormon prophets *
Prophets and messengers in Islam Prophets in Islam () are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God in Islam, God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour. Some prophets are categorized as messengers (; sing. , ), those who transmit Revelatio ...
** Prophethood (Ahmadiyya) * Prophets in the Baháʼí Faith


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