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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.
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 .
Some resources for more complete information on the scrolls are the book by Emanuel Tov, "Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert" [3] for a complete list of all of the Dead Sea Scroll texts, as well as the online webpages for the Shrine of the Book [4] and the Leon Levy Collection, [5] both of which present photographs and images of the scrolls and fragments themselves for closer ...
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 ...
Beor (Hebrew: בְּעוֹר Bə‘ōr, "a burning") is a name which appears in relation to a king ("Bela son of Beor") and a diviner ("Balaam son of Beor"). Because the two names vary only by a single letter (ם , -m, often added to the ends of names), scholars have hypothesized that the two refer to the same person. [1]
[16] Nonetheless, Balaam invited the dignitaries to stay overnight to let Balaam find out what else God might say to him, and that night God told Balaam: "If these men have come to invite you, you may go with them." [17] Balaam and the Ass (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot) Balaam and the Angel (1836 painting by Gustav Jaeger)
A crowd of community members gathered under gray skies Sunday afternoon outside the Maryland Cracker Barrel where a group of special needs and autistic children were denied dine-in service earlier ...
Balaam; Balak; Jesus Christ; Jezebel; John's vision of the Son of Man; John the Apostle; Seven churches of Asia; Related Bible parts: Numbers 22, Numbers 24, Numbers 25, Numbers 31, 1 Kings 16, 1 Kings 21, 2 Kings 9, Psalm 2, 2 Peter 2, Revelation 1, Revelation 3, Revelation 17; Synagogue of Satan