Page "Abraham Joshua Heschel" Paragraph 21

: The publisher of this book states, " The standard Jewish view is that prophecy ended with the ancient prophets, somewhere early in the Second Temple era.

Heschel demonstrated that this view is not altogether accurate.

Belief in the possibility of continued prophetic inspiration, and in its actual occurrence appear throughout much of the medieval period, and even in modern times.

Heschel's work on prophetic inspiration in the Middle Ages originally appeared in two long Hebrew articles.

In them he concentrated on the idea that prophetic inspiration was possible even in post-Talmudic times, and, indeed, had taken place at various times and in various schools, from the Geonim to Maimonides and beyond.