Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: The Unknown King
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 09:33:45 +1100
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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