People-specific prophecies

(image by Gustave Doré, taken from here)

It is well known that biblical critics are immensely bothered by the Book of Yesha'ayahu. The reason that they are bothered by it is not because it's, as they claim, made up of two to fifty (roughly) different books of different prophets, of whom only one is named (Yesha'ayhu I), but really because they deny the very possibility of prophecy. To them, prophets were the ancient world's equivalent of thinkers and political advisors. No spiritual capabilities whatsoever. As long as the prophets gave generalized apocalyptic "prophecies" that could mean anything and may not even come true, the prophets were in the clear.

No, what really bothers critics is when prophets got something right. Then the prophet is a goner: He or she will be pushed from their classically-accepted era to the future, a time in which everyone knew what had transpired, thus removing any real prophetic abilities from them.

But what really bothers critics the most is when prophets give people-specific prophecies. When I say people-specific, I mean naming names. The most famous of these is, of course, the Koresh prophecy. Yesha'ayhu prophecies that in the future, a man named Koresh will save Am Yisrael. This was Cyrus the Great, who did indeed allow Yisrael to return to Judea and rebuild the Temple.

"That cannot be!" gasped the critics. "How could someone centuries earlier know something like that?"

Therefore, it was ceremoniously decided that Yesha'ayhu must be made up of two books, one by the original Yesha'ayhu and the other by an exile-era prophet who was a fan of Koresh. Then other fictions were invented, and somehow critics managed to convince themselves that there's clear evidence that the book was actually made up of three, four, five, six or more smaller books of prophets, all jumbled up together. Riiiiighhhttt.

To this end, I thought of making a list of times in which prophets give such people-specific prophecies:

1. Koresh the mashiach (Yesha'ayhu 45:1, Yesha'ayahu 44:28)

2. The two witnesses, Uriyah and Zecharayahu (Yesha'ayahu 8:2)

3. Yoshiyahu, destroyer of idolatry (Melachim 1:13:2)

4. Gog, lord of Rosh, Meshech and Tuval (Yechezkel 39:1)

Will update if and when I find others.