The Unknown King

George Athas gathas at mail.usyd.edu.au
Sun Feb 7 17:33:45 EST 1999


Lloyd Barre wrote:

> Dear List People,
>
> I would be very interest in anyone's opinion with regard to these texts from the Oracles of Balaam (the last is from the Blessing of Moses.  the oracles makes several  refences to a king.  Who is this king and do the texts tell us about him?
>

Lloyd, in the first extract at least, by the clues of poetic parallelism, the king is Yahweh. With regards to the Agag, there is some doubt - is a human king meant or a divine king? The Agag figure is somewhat ambiguous.The star in Jacob is
certainly a human king, though who is difficult to tell. David? Or an Israelite king like Omri?

Best,
GEORGE ATHAS
Dept of Semitic Studies,
University of Sydney
- Email: gathas at mail.usyd.edu.au
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