Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient IsraelThere are untold numbers of female prophets hiding in the masculine grammar and androcentric focus of the Hebrew scriptures. There are women prophets in the communities around biblical Israel, existing for hundreds of years and even a thousand years before the Israelite and Judean prophets recorded their messages. The rabbinic and Christian fathers analyzed and found more women in the scriptures who function as prophets than the biblical authors