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The Deir 'Alla inscription or Balaam inscription, known as KAI 312, is a famous [1] inscription discovered during a 1967 excavation in Deir 'Alla, Jordan. It is currently at the Jordan Archaeological Museum .
Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836. Balaam (/ ˈ b eɪ l æ m /; [1] Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, romanized: Bīlʿām), son of Beor, [2] was a biblical character, a non-Israelite prophet and diviner who lived in Pethor, a place identified with the ancient city of Pitru, thought to have been located between the region of Iraq and northern Syria in what is now southeastern Turkey.
"Barlaam and Josaphat" in the Eastern Orthodox version comes from John of Damascus, copied and translated into Old Church Slavonic by anonymous monk-scribes from the 9th-11th centuries, and in modern Serbian by Ava Justin Popović ("Lives of the Saints" for November, pp. 563–590), an abridged version of which is given in the Ohrid Prologue of ...
On a wall was written a story relating visions of the seer of the gods "Balʿam son of Beʿor" (Balaam son of Beor), who may be the same Balʿam son of Beʿor mentioned in Numbers 22–24 and in other passages of the Bible. The Deir Alla Balaam is associated with "a god bearing the name Shgr, 'Shadday' gods and goddesses, and with the goddess ...
Pethor or Petor (פְּתוֹר) in the Hebrew Bible is the home of the prophet (or diviner) Balaam. In the Book of Numbers, Pethor is described as being located "by the river of the land of the children of his people". [1] The River usually refers in the Bible to the Euphrates River, the rest of the description is somewhat vague and perhaps ...
[1] [3] He pointed to similarities in content, such as the focus on purification in Numbers 5:1–4, chapter 19 and 31:19–24, as well as in linguistics in Numbers 10:9, 27:17, 31:6,19 and Exodus 40:15, all of which had been previously identified with the Holiness School (HS) by other scholars. [1]
Bil'am is the transliteration of the original Hebrew, while Wikipedia is an English encyclopedia. The Anglicized version of his name is used here, similar to to articles on Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Laban, Aaron and Joshua. DRosenbach (Talk | Contribs) 22:08, 13 July 2008 (UTC) Then that's where you'll find it in the Hebrew Wikipedia.
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