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Hananiah’s prophecy offers a fascinating case study. The talmudic rabbis consider that he may have been a true prophet and use this story to attempt to define a false prophet. A mishna in Sanhedrin asserts that some prophets are put on trial for their prophecy: one who invents a prophecy without having actually received it, and one who prophesies what another prophet heard. An example of the first category is Zedekiah son of Kenaana, who stages a prophetic performance in the presence of the kings of Israel and Judah before they battle Edom. As an example of the second category, the rabbis offer Hananiah son of Azzur, “who would hear things from Jeremiah the prophet as he prophesied in the upper market, and then go and repeat his words in the lower market.” How can this be? Jeremiah uttered the exact opposite of Hananiah’s prediction! This contradiction is addressed in the Talmud itself:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJeremiah stood in the upper market and said: “Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Behold, I shall break the bow of Elam” [49:35]. Hananiah reasoned <\/span>a fortiori<\/span><\/i>: If concerning Elam, which merely assisted Babylonia, God said: “Behold, I shall break the bow of Elam,” then it should certainly be true of the Chaldeans! He went to the lower market and said: “Thus said the Lord of Hosts…I will break the yoke of the King of Babylonia.” R. Papa said to Abbaye: Didn’t he repeat this prophecy to his colleague [i.e., Jeremiah]? Abbaye responded: Since Hananiah deduced this conclusion logically, it was as if Jeremiah had said these words\u201d (Sanhedrin 89a).<\/span><\/p>\n

Evidently, the rabbis felt that Hananiah’s words had some substance. The rebellion against Babylonia was not absurd. After Jeremiah leaves the Temple, he receives another divine vision, instructing him to encounter Hananiah once more:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah: Listen, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you, yet you have persuaded this nation to trust in lies. Therefore, thus said the Lord: I shall cast you off the face of the earth \u2014 this year you will die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord. In the seventh month of that year, Hananiah the prophet died\u201d (28:15-17) .<\/span><\/p>\n

No one else heard Jeremiah’s curse. Though Hananiah indeed died, his prophecy did not die with him, and the people still believed in it. Hananiah probably died a hero’s death, meriting an honorable burial.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i>. 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