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What Is This Babbler Trying to Say?
Essays on Biblical Interpretation
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What Is This Babbler Trying to Say?
Essays on Biblical Interpretation
Moore
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This book is a collection of revised-and-updated essays about the Hebrew Bible written by a North American scholar over a period of several decades. Subdivided into three parts--Torah, Prophecy/Apocalyptic, and Wisdom--these seventeen essays attempt to model for younger scholars and students what the discipline of biblical interpretation can look like, attending carefully to literary, historical, canonical, and comparative intertextual methods of investigation.
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1
ANOTHER LOOK AT BALAAM*
Balaam ben Beor is a multidimensional figure, whether we examine his activity in the Hebrew Bible, in Second Temple Judaism, or on the plaster inscription from Tell Deir `AllÄ.1 Within the Balaam cycle in Tanak (Num 22â24) the text depicts him as Yahwehâs âobedient servant.â2 Yet within this cycle he also behaves as a bungling buffoon in a satirical âburlesque,â3 a blind âseerâ unable to âseeâ Yahwehâs angel standing directly in his path. Micah of Moresheth preserves a memory of him acting as Moabâs antagonist (Mic 6:3â5), but most Tanak sources depict him as Israelâs quintessential antagonist.4
This polarized response to Balaam hardens in several Second Temple texts. Ps.-Philo, for example, continues to portray him as Godâs faithful âservantâ (Lat servum tuum)5 while an anonymous rabbinic commentator calls him âa prophet greater than Moses.â6 Contradicting these portrayals, however, the Fragment Targums,7 Talmud,8 and Greek New Testament9 all portray him as âBalaam the Wicked.â10 Recognizing the danger posed by such lopsided polarization, Josephus cautiously suggests that readers go back to Tanak and examine it carefully before making up their minds about Balaam.11
The Deir `AllÄ texts give us more information. Here Balaam appears as a âseer of the godsâ (áž„zn âlhn) on the first line of Combination 1,12 an envoy allegedly chosen by a divine council to convey a doomsday oracle to a local populace. Combination 2, however, though more fragmentary, depicts him in categories more congruent with the occultic activity alluded to in Num 31:16.13 Whatever the interpretive possibilities,14 the DA discovery removes all doubt about the existence of a non-Hebrew Balaam tradition in Iron Age Transjordan among a people evidently non-Yahwistic and probably non-Israelite.
Yet in spite of this new evidence several studies of this ancient Near Eastern specialist continue to constrict his multidimensionality within bipolar parameters first proposed by nineteenth-century literary critics to explain, prior to the great archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century, the character and development of Torah. Within this framework Balaam is either a âblesserâ or a âcurser,â but these are the only options.15 The vestigial â2-sourceâ hypothesis underlying this polarized framework has been and continues to be contested. Some angrily rail at it;16 others try to work within its bipolar parameters (often without presuming the existence of independent literary âdocumentsâ);17 and still others ignore it.18 Few attempt to engage seriously the sociohistorical context out of which the Balaam traditions originate.19
The question raised here is therefore simple. Is Balaam only a âcurserâ/âblesser,â or is the nineteenth-century bipolar approach to the Balaam traditions inadequate and outdated? Without denying that Tanak editors largely succeed in corralling the Balaam traditions within enclosures structured by the âblessing-curseâ polarity,20 perpetuation of this nineteenth-century approach practically guarantees that the multidimensional roles enacted by this specialist will remain hidden from view. Better to switch methodological gears and re-examine the Balaam traditions from a perspective informed by selected anthropological studies of religion,21 especially the adaptable variables generated by co...