The prestige of the pagan prophet Balaam in Judaism, early Christianity and Islam: [Themes in Biblical Narrative Conference at the University of Groningen on 17 - 18 June 2005]
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 Martíne...
| Published in: | Themes in biblical narrative |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
2008
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Themes in biblical narrative (11)
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| Reviews: | , in: CBQ 71 (2009) 459-460 (Baskin, Judith R.) , in: BiblInterp 18 (2010) 286-288 (Pressler, Carolyn) |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Themes in biblical narrative
11 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Balaam
B Reception |
| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam HB Old Testament HC New Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Balaam (Biblical figure) Congresses
B Collection of essays B Balaam (Biblical figure) Congresses B Conference program 2005 (Groningen) |
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Table of Contents |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. - Selected conference papers. - ISBN-10 aus FD übern |
| ISBN: | 9004165649 |