In our Twitter world, prophecy is not a topic that gets much traction these days. Yet with the upcoming release of Darren Aronofsky's motion picture Noah, prophecy has become headline news. The highest authority of Sunni Islam, Cairo's Al-Azhar, has issued a fatwa (religious injunction) against the film, which has been banned in Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates for “depicting the messengers and prophets of God.”
What is prophecy and how many biblical-era prophets were there after all?
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