This was the case until the last student of Hillel the Elder: Beginning from Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai (Epstein 1938d, 284), all the renowned sages were called by their first names, such as Simeon the Righteous (Epstein 1935a, 2),
Shemaiah and Abtalion (Epstein 1935a, 7), without noting any rabbinical title whatsoever ("Rabbi is greater than Rav, Rabban is greater than Rabbi, and his name alone is greater than Rabban") (Halevi 1970, 9).
We are about to do great injury to ourselves!' There was also a man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Uriah son of
Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and this land the same things as Jeremiah.
(22.) Already in the last part of Jeremiah 29, a certain prophet named
Shemaiah is rebuked for also prophesying when, in fact, he had not been divinely commissioned (cf.
Shemaiah, the prophet, warns Rehoboam not to invade the northern kingdom, since the division was the will of God.
Uriah ben
Shemaiah was an unknown prophet from Kiriath-jearim, one of the four Gibeonite cities (Josh.
The prophet
Shemaiah's one-sentence sermon during this crisis drew a clear connection between Israel's abandonment of Yahweh and Yahweh's abandonment of them (2 Chr 12:5).
29:29); the chronicles of the prophet
Shemaiah and Iddo the seer (II Chron.