Jeremy Rosen
Making Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Numbers 22, Balaam the Sorcerer
Summary
Study the text of the Bible weekly with Jeremy Rosen through a combination of traditional, critical, and personal perspectives. No knowledge of Hebrew or the Bible is necessary. You may use any Bible text you may have or you can go to sefaria.org. This week begins with Numbers 22, Balaam the sorcerer.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.
Well, the first obvious answer is that they are two very separate tribes that live in close proximity to each other. But again, the commentators like to suggest that there was more to that, there was either a military takeover, one of the other, or that they merged or that they combined under the threat. But they were neighbours who both of them were worried about the advance of the Israelites in their direction.