Balaam
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Balaam, son of Beor, was, according to the Bible, a gentile prophet and diviner who lived in Pethor, a place identified with the ancient city of Pitru, thought to have been located between the region
Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836
The Prophet Balaam and the Angel by John Linnell (1859)
Balaam and the Ass, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1626
בלעם בן בעור – Artwork by esoteric artist Filippo Biagioli
Beor (biblical figure)
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Beor is a name which appears in relation to a king and a diviner. Because the two names vary only by a single letter, scholars have hypothesized that the two refer to the same person.
Balaam
…Balaam (; Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, romanized: Bīlʿām; Old Aramaic: 𐤁𐤋𐤏𐤌, romanized: Bilʿām), son of Beor, was, according to the Bible, a gentile prophet and diviner who lived in Pethor, a place identified with the ancient city of Pitru, thought to have…
Beor and Balaam in the Nuremberg Chronicle