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The prestige of the pagan prophet Balaam in Judaism, early Christianity and Islam /
This volume deals with the pagan prophet Balaam who figures in the book of Numbers. By the very nature of his stature as a non-Israelite, pagan prophet, the figure of Balaam raises important questions with regard to the nature of prophecy and the relation between the Israelite God and the pagan nati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Colección: | Themes in biblical narrative ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Balaam the villain : the history of reception of the Balaam narrative in the Pentateuch and the former prophets / Ed Noort
- Balaʹam and Deir ʻAlla / Émile Puech
- Balaam, Mopsus and Melampous : tales of traveling seers / Jan N. Bremmer
- Balaam in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Florentino García Martínez
- A Qumran cave 2 fragment preserving part of Numbers 23:5-7[8] (2Q29 1) / Eibert Tigchelaar
- Balaam and Enoch / Eibert Tigchelaar
- The rewriting of Numbers 22-24 in pseudo-Philo, Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 18 / Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten
- Balaam as the Sophist par excellence in Philo of Alexandria : Philo's projection of an urgent contemporary debate onto Moses' Pentateuchal narratives / George H. van Kooten
- 'A star shall come out of Jacob' : a critical evaluation of the Balaam oracle in the context of Jewish revolts in Roman times / Stefan Beyerle
- Balaam's fourth oracle (Numbers 24:15-19) according to the Aramaic targums / Alberdina Houtman and Harry Sysling
- Interpret him as much as you want : Balaam in the Babylonian Talmud / Ronit Nikolsky
- Balaam and the star of the Magi / Tobias Nicklas
- Balaam in Revelation 2:14 / Jan Willem van Henten
- Balaam and 2 Peter 2:15 : 'They have followed in the steps of Balaam' (Jude 11) / Tord Fornberg
- Speaking asses in the Acts of Thomas : an intertextual and cognitive perspective / István Czachesz
- 'To bless with a mouth bent on cursing' : patristic interpretations of Balaam (Num 24:17) / Johan Leemans
- Balaʹam in early Koranic commentaries / Fred Leemhuis.