Suzanne Last Stone Between Truth and Trust: The False Prophet as Self-Deceiver?
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In I Kings 22, a lying spirit deceives King Ahab’s prophets into prophesying in unison success in battle. This strange and tragic story enlarges the category of false prophets to include those who are sincere yet mistaken. This biblical report of one of many clashes between true and false prophets offers a conceptually powerful tool for thinking through the human capacity and obligation to discern and convey the truth, one pursued by modern readers of the Hebrew Bible such as Kant and Hobbes as well as by rabbinic readers. In constructing a theory of culpability for the case of the deceived prophet, the rabbis reflected on the intricate relationship of truth to trust in a startlingly contemporary manner.
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