Thursday, July 05, 2018

On Balaam

PROF. CARL S. ERLICH: Balaam the Seer: From the Bible to the Deir ĘżAlla Inscription (TheTorah.com).
What we know about where he lived, the language he spoke, and the gods he worshiped.
A good, thorough discussion of all of our evidence, biblical and epigraphic, for the seer Balaam son of Beor.

Some past PaleoJudaica posts on Balaam are here, here, here, here, here, here, and links.

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