Who Is the True Seer Driven by God: Balak or Balaam?

A Text Linguistic and Literary Study of Numbers 22–24

Junhee Lee

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781666793833
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

Serious Bible readers, including biblical scholars, Sunday Bible teachers, laypersons of church, and even the Sunday school kids, ask the question, "Is Balaam a good or bad person?" or "Is Balaam a prophet of God or a pagan diviner?" However, nobody has provided a relieving answer for the question up to this day. Then, what does the Balaam story in the passage of Num 22-24 tell us about the character of Balaam? More fundamentally, what does the passage want readers to know? This book suggests a new way for Bible reading, especially the Old Testament. The Old Testament readers can discover a proper strategy to understand the intention and message of every single passage of the Old Testament through the ways that are suggested in this book.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: A Survey of Studies on the Balaam Story in Num 22–24
• Chapter 2: Methodology for the Study and Its Application to the Analysis of the Balaam Text of Num 22–24
• Chapter 3: Synthetic Propositions and the Message, Intention, and Theological Implications of the Balaam Story
• Conclusion
• Bibliography