Reply To: To add to the list of YU’s sins

Smerel, it doesn’t say “written for,” the gemara is either saying that they prophecized TO, non jewish people, either mainly to(iyov) or somewhat to(the others) or “about,” i preferred the second reading because we don’t find yeshaya, etc…giving nevuos to goyim. The examples that come to mind are yonah and ehud, but these are so rare that the gemara can’t be saying “all the nevei yisroel also prophecized to goyim,” where do we find that, for example, yechezek even met anyone who wasn’t jewisu? Rather it means that goyishe nations are in their nevuos(i.e., the king of moav will do….)

It’s completely untenable that the gemara is saying that these seforim were written for goyim to learn.

The whole question of the gemara is if iyov is Jewish or not. That’s a machlokes. The gemara tries to prove that he was not Jewish from a braisa about hthe goyim who were neviim, then we get to the shakla vetaryah about prophecizing to/about goyim

Since a goy is not permitted to learn Torah, which is a clear halacha, any implied reading of this gemara is null – even if it would be a good diyuk, which in this case, is so out of context that i wonder how you managed to see this in the words.