As Balaam was a real person then this must hold good, too, for Moses, Balak and Joshua
by Damien F. Mackey “In an unprecedented discovery, an ancient text found at Deir Alla, Jordan, in 1967 tells about the activities of a prophet named Balaam . Could this be the Balaam of the Old Testament? The text makes it clear that it is. Three times in the first four lines he is referred to as “ Balaam son of Beor ,” exactly as in the Bible ” . Dr Bryant Wood Those, like Dr. Eduard Meyer, who claim that Moses never existed or wrote anything, or like the modern Israeli archaeologists for whom the Joshuan Conquest was based on some dim, distant historical memory: Serious archaeological mis-dating is why the Middle Bronze I nomads seem so mysterious (22) Serious archaeological mis-dating is why the Middle Bronze I nomads seem so mysterious have been completely wrong-footed by documentary archaeological evidence for the real existence of the venal prophet Balaam, the contemporary...