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According to Jewish legend, Balaam was made this powerful in order to prevent the non-Jewish tribes from saying: "If we had only had our own Moses, we would be as pious as the Jews."
 
Nevertheless, it is significant that, despite the apparently positive description of a Prophet blessing the Israelites, given in Numbers 22–2422–24, in rabbinical literature the epithet ''rasha'', translating as ''the wicked one'', is often attached to the name of Balaam (Talmud Berachot l.c.; Taanit 20a; Midrash Numbers Rabbah 20:14). Balaam is pictured as blind of one eye and lame in one foot (Talmud Sanhedrin 105a); and his disciples (followers) are distinguished by three morally corrupt qualities, supposedly the very opposite of those characterizing the disciples of Abraham (Ab. v. 19; compare Tan., Balak, 6):
*an [[evil eye]]
*a [[Hubris|haughty]] bearing
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An interesting, but doubtful, emendation makes this poem describe the nun of Shamal, a state in northwest Syria. In the [[New Testament]], Balaam is cited as a type of avarice; for example in [[Wahyu 2#Ayat 14|Wahyu 2:14]] we read of false teachers at Pergamum who held the "teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication." Balaam has attracted much interest, alike from Jews, Christians and Muslims. [[Josephus]] paraphrases the story more so, and speaks of Balaam as the best prophet of his time, but with a disposition ill adapted to resist [[temptation]].<ref>[[Flavius Yosefus]], ''[[Antiquitates Iudaicae]]'', iv. 6, § 2</ref> [[Filo]] describes him as a great magician in the ''Life of Moses'' ;<ref>[[Philo]], ''De Vita Moysis'', i. 48: "a man renowned above all men for his skill as a diviner and a prophet, who foretold to the various nations important events, abundance and rain, or droughts and famine, inundations or pestilence."</ref> elsewhere he speaks of "the [[sophist]] Balaam, being," i.e. symbolizing "a vain crowd of contrary and warring opinions" and again as "a vain people" — both phrases being based on a mistaken etymology of the name Balaam.
 
Balaam also figures as an example of a false teacher in both [[2 Peter]] 2:15 and in [[Jude the Apostle|Jude]] 1:11. In both of these verses, Balaam is cited as an example of a false prophet motived by greed or avarice. These references harken to the Old Testament account of Balaam in Numbers 22&ndash;2422–24 in which King Balak hires the renowned Balaam to curse his enemies (Israel). Even though God intervenes and makes Balaam deliver blessings instead of curses, it's clear that Balaam was normally a prophet for hire. The verses in 2 Peter and Jude are then warnings to the early Christians to beware of religious leaders who are enjoying financial advantages.
 
===Balaam in Apocrypha===
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== Arkeologi ==
{{details|Inskripsi Deir Alla}}
Pada tahun 1967 [[arkeolog]] menemukan sebuah [[Inskripsi Deir Alla|"inskripsi" di Deir Alla]], [[Yordania]] yang menyebutkan nama "Bileam bin Beor" beberapa kali serta mencatat suatu [[nubuat]] yang ditulis dalam dialek [[bahasa Aram]] dan bahasa Kanaan selatan, yaitu dalam bentuk tulisan ''idiosinkratik''.<ref>Jo Ann Hackett, ''The Balaam Text from Deir ʿAllā''. (Harvard Semitic Monographs '''31''') 1980, released 1984.</ref> Prasasti ini diperkirakan dibuat pada tahun 840&ndash;760840–760 SM; ditulis dengan tinta berwarna merah dan hitam, tampaknya untuk menekankan isinya, pada fragmen tembok yang dicat: 119 potongan cat tembok dapat dikumpulkan. Menurut isi prasasti, Bileam terbangun sambil menangis dan mengatakan kepada bangsanya bahwa dewa-dewa menampakkan diri kepadanya di waktu malam, memberitahukan perihal satu dewi yang mengancam untuk menghancurkan tanah itu.<ref>J. Hoftijzer and G. van der Kooij, ''Aramaic Texts from Deir 'Alla'' ''Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui '''19''' (Leiden) 1976.</ref> Dewi ini menguasai langit dan akan membuat bumi menjadi gelap gulita. Meindert Dykstra menganggap bahwa "Keengganan pakar Perjanjian Lama untuk memperhitungkan tulisan ini disebabkan kondisi penemuan yang rusak, kesulitan untuk merekonstruksi dan membacanya, dan banyak pertanyaan dari bentuk tulisan, bahasa, bentuk sastra serta isi keagamaannya."<ref>Meindert Dijkstra, "Is Balaam Also among the Prophets?" ''Journal of Biblical Literature'' '''114'''.1 (Spring 1995, pp. 43&ndash;6443–64), p. 44.</ref>
 
== Lihat pula ==
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== Pustaka tambahan ==
* Hoftijzer, Jacob. "The Prophet Balaam in a 6th Century Aramaic Inscription," Biblical Archaeologist, Volume 39, 1976 (2001 electronic edition)
* McCarter, P. Kyle, "The Balaam Texts from Deir Allā: The First Combination," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 239. (Summer, 1980), pp.&nbsp;49&ndash;6049–60.
* Olrik, Axel (Kirsten Wolf and Jody Jensen, trs.) Principles for Oral Narrative Research. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1921 (1992 tr.).
 
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* [http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=161&letter=B Jewish Encyclopedia: Balaam ]
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~aamihay/Balaam.html Bibliography on Balaam]
* [http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb.htm Biblical Hebrew Poetry &ndash; Reconstructing the Original Oral, Aural and Visual Experience]
* [http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb_6.htm#Balaam The Oracles of Balaam (poetic portions of Numbers 23:7&ndash;247–24:24) Reconstructed]
* The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE), James Orr, M.A., D.D., General Editor - 1915 ([http://www.thecorner-stone.org/Bible-Study-Resources/Dictionary/Bible-Word-Compendium/b/Ba/baalim.php online])
* Easton's Bible Dictionary, M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. ([http://www.thecorner-stone.org/Bible-Study-Resources/Dictionary/Bible-Word-Compendium/b/Ba/baalim.php online])