@article{ART001864357},
author={Yoon Kyung Lee},
title={The Otherized Moabite Balaam},
journal={Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies},
issn={1229-0521},
year={2014},
volume={20},
number={1},
pages={122-149},
doi={10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.122}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yoon Kyung Lee
TI - The Otherized Moabite Balaam
JO - Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies
PY - 2014
VL - 20
IS - 1
PB - Korean Society of Old Testament Studies
SP - 122
EP - 149
SN - 1229-0521
AB - This paper begins with a question why the tradition of Balaam hasbeen transitioned from positive or, at least, neutral to negative within theBible. Numbers 22-24, reporting Balaam in a positive or neutral fashion,is dated to the period of the Omri-Ahab dynasty in which the worshipof El, Shaddayin, Shagar, and/or Ashera was permissible and prevalentand also in which Moab was colonized. Afterward, Deuteronomist (e.g.
Deut. 23) and Deuteronomistic Historian (e.g. Joshua 24), after Moabwas independent of Israel, were written in both a political and theologicalcontext in which Balaam’s worship of goddess and poly-gods was not to betolerated. Finally, in Numbers 31, a Priestly document, Balaam is depictedas one of the slaughtered along with the Midianite kings. The Post-exilicYehud, of which period was under the Persian Empire, made great effortsto establish an ethnic identity and religious distinction with the centrality ofthe Temple. Over time, in accordance with external issues such as politicaland religious relationship with Moab, the Balaam narrative, tangled withethnicity and religiosity of Moab, had continued to be shifted in terms ofits interpretation. Thus, the Moabite Balaam grew to be gradually rejectedand being Otherized over time throughout the Bible.
KW - Balaam;Moab;Deir 'Alla Inscription;Othering;Goddess
DO - 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.122
ER -
Yoon Kyung Lee. (2014). The Otherized Moabite Balaam. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, 20(1), 122-149.
Yoon Kyung Lee. 2014, "The Otherized Moabite Balaam", Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, vol.20, no.1 pp.122-149. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.122
Yoon Kyung Lee "The Otherized Moabite Balaam" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 20.1 pp.122-149 (2014) : 122.
Yoon Kyung Lee. The Otherized Moabite Balaam. 2014; 20(1), 122-149. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.122
Yoon Kyung Lee. "The Otherized Moabite Balaam" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 20, no.1 (2014) : 122-149.doi: 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.122
Yoon Kyung Lee. The Otherized Moabite Balaam. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, 20(1), 122-149. doi: 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.122
Yoon Kyung Lee. The Otherized Moabite Balaam. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies. 2014; 20(1) 122-149. doi: 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.122
Yoon Kyung Lee. The Otherized Moabite Balaam. 2014; 20(1), 122-149. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.122
Yoon Kyung Lee. "The Otherized Moabite Balaam" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 20, no.1 (2014) : 122-149.doi: 10.24333/jkots.2014.20.1.122
