Balaam's Error

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> From: Curt van den Heuvel <heuvelc@primenet.com>

> To: Errancy <errancy@infidels.org>

> Subject: Balaam's Error

> Date: Monday, December 08, 1997 12:06 PM

> 

> 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


IAN
Well Curt, anything is possible except for the talking ass. Of course, as a
biblical errantist, I use only the Bible, a concordance, a Bible dictionary
(with a grain of salt) and an atlas. Of course, I am not sure which Bible
to use because the inerrantists cannot seem to agree. In fact, not one of
them has even suggested to me that one particular Bible is inerrant. 

Ian Dorion
"Good Christians make good Nazis"

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