In ancient Chinese, prophetic texts are known as Chen(谶).

These prophetic texts were much used by the emperors.

These prophetic texts were also officially accepted as descriptions of particular emperors.

How do you teach the history of a prophetic text whose events haven't happened yet?

This article was the result of his enthusiastic reflections on prophetic texts by Hugo describing the second world conflict, its outcome and the fall of Fascism.

The death of Bauman's son Glenn brought a devoted reading to prophetic texts of the Bible.

(The term indicates the short length of the text in relation to the longer prophetic texts known as the Major Prophets).

And yet as I proceeded, I finally got it: this book was a prophecy, which like all prophetic texts needed to be read as metaphor.

Heartsick, I turned again to the prophetic text that had once given me succor at the Possum School.

"Makes it easy to see why there's not more of a market for prophetic religious text."