Prophetic traditions refers to any written or oral prophecies within a culture, usually of religious nature.
A major source of such early prophetic traditions comes from the Jewish religion where it is called Masorah, and is identified in Oral Torah, notably in the Pirkei Avot that spans the tradition from Moses to the time of the Second Temple.
In the Christian prophetic tradition the texts are reflected in the New Testament.
The Islamic prophetic tradition is exemplified by the Hadith
Non-religious prophetic traditions are represented by Nostradamus in France and Joseph Smith, Jr. to name a few.
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“Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs. But you must have the believing and prophetic eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)