Balaam In Text And Tradition

Author : Jonathan Miles Robker
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161563557
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balaam in Text and Tradition written by Jonathan Miles Robker and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure Balaam has interested exegetes and scribes for millennia. Jonathan Miles Robker examines the different versions of the literary character Balaam as attested in biblical and epigraphic literature. By contrasting the distinct information about Balaam presented in the various sources (the plaster inscription from Della, Numbers 22-24; 31; Deuteronomy 23; Joshua 13; 24; Judges 11; Micah 6; and Nehemiah 13), the author seeks to trace the development of characterizations of Balaam from the oldest available material to the youngest in the Hebrew Bible. In this way, Jonathan Miles Robker advances discourse about the literary and tradition-historical development of the texts that became the Hebrew Bible. Beyond the text of the Hebrew Bible, he also traces the continued development of Balaam's characterization through the texts of Qumran and the New Testament. To this end, the author contributes discussions of the history of religion in Antiquity.

Author : Michael S. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Balaam Traditions written by Michael S. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Géza Vermès
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004070967
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripture and Tradition in Judaism written by Géza Vermès and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John T. Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balaam and His Interpreters written by John T. Greene and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Kulik
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190863072
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission written by Alexander Kulik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.

Author : George H. van Kooten
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433130
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam written by George H. van Kooten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 nations. The conflicting stories and potent oracles of Balaam in Numbers 22-24 and other parts of the Jewish Scriptures prompted extensive reflection on this ambiguous figure. Thus the leading perspective developed in this volume is the often simultaneous praise and criticism of Balaam as a prestigious pagan prophet throughout ancient Judaism, early Christianity and the early Koranic commentaries. The papers are clustered in four sections which deal with (1) Balaam in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East, and comparable figures in Ancient Greece; (2) Balaam in Ancient Judaism; (3) Balaam in the New Testament & Early Christianity; and (4) Balaam in the Koran and early Koranic commentaries. The reception of this enigmatic figure can be characterized as the simultaneous praise and criticism of a pagan prophet. The book is particularly useful as it also contains Émile Puech’s newly reconstructed text, translation and commentary of the first combination of the Deir ‘Alla inscriptions which contain an excerpt of the book of the historical Balaam. Combined with the other papers, the volume pictures a fascinating continuum between paganism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Author : Martin McNamara
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161508363
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Targum and New Testament written by Martin McNamara and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relevance of the Targums (Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible) for the understanding of the New Testament has been a matter of dispute over the past three hundred years, principally by reason of the late date of the Targum manuscripts and the nature of the Aramaic. The debate has become more focused by reason of the Qumran finds of pre-Christian Aramaic documents (1947) and the identification of a complete text of the Palestinian Targum of the Pentateuch in the Vatican Library (Codex Neofiti, 1956). Martin McNamara traces the history of the debate down to our own day and the annotated translation of all the Targums into English. He studies the language situation (Aramaic and Greek) in New Testament Palestine and the interpretation of the Scriptures in the Targums, with concepts and language similar to the New Testament. Against this background relationships between the Targums and the New Testament are examined. A way forward is suggested by regarding the tell-like structure of the Targums (with layers from different ages) and a continuum running through for certain texts.

Author : Jacob Hoftijzer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004093171
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Balaam Text from Deir ʻAlla Re-evaluated written by Jacob Hoftijzer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book concerns the inscription written on wall plaster discovered in 1967 at Deir cAlla in the Jordan Valley, and published in 1976. Using new data and the discussions about the text available to date, it deals with six different aspects of study of the text, namely the archaeological context, the palaeography, the general interpretation as well as the interpretation of several separate passages, the language used, and its relation to Old Testament studies.

Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471717
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions written by Raphael Patai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

Author : Hoftijzer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004666354
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Balaam Text from Deir 'Alla Re-Evaluated written by Hoftijzer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1991 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book concerns the inscription written on wall plaster discovered in 1967 at Deir cAlla in the Jordan Valley, and published in 1976. Using new data and the discussions about the text available to date, it deals with six different aspects of study of the text, namely the archaeological context, the palaeography, the general interpretation as well as the interpretation of several separate passages, the language used, and its relation to Old Testament studies.