Balaam's Error

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Having just read the latest issue of TSR, I was struck by a thought. It
seems strange to me that 

a) the New Testament writers all held the same mistaken belief that Balaam
had somehow committed some sin against Yahweh and that
b) the story of Balaam is so curiously disjoint. Surely this would have
been noticed by the editor/redactor of this passage?

With this in mind, what is the possibility that we are dealing here with an
extrabiblical source for the story of Balaam? Are there any Jewish
apocryphal stories about Balaam, in the vein of the book of Enoch, from
which the New Testament writers may have got their information? Also, what
is the possibility that the story of Balaam as we now have it is
incomplete? Perhaps there was originally more to the story that might make
more sense, which has since been lost.

-Curt

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