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Midian -a Land or a League ?

Midian -a Land or a League ? MIDIAN -A LAND OR A LEAGUE ? BY WILLIAM J. DUMBRELL Sydney The biblical accounts of the activities of the Midianites or related groupings at the end of the Late Bronze Age period present them as a seemingly ubiquitous people who are found not only in the Horeb/Sinai region as well as in Egypt, but also astride the great north-south trade routes, in the plains of Moab, and apparently, if the habitat of Balaam is to be placed at or near the ancient Pitru, extending, at least in their influence, as far as the Euphrates River itself (Num. xxii 5). It is obvious that, even to the biblical writers, they were a curious and a puzzling entity, about whom little was known directly, and who were confused or amalgamated with many associated or semi-related peoples. What is said of them is said in relation to other groups and to Israel itself, in all of whom the biblical writers naturally were much more interested. Associated with Israel in the formative national period of the Exodus and wilderness wanderings, the Midianites demonstrably had left their sociological stamp on many of Israel's early institutions, while at the same time they infiltrated http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

Midian -a Land or a League ?

Dumbrell, William J.
Vetus Testamentum , Volume 25 (2): 323 – Jan 1, 1975
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© 1975 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-4935
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MIDIAN -A LAND OR A LEAGUE ? BY WILLIAM J. DUMBRELL Sydney The biblical accounts of the activities of the Midianites or related groupings at the end of the Late Bronze Age period present them as a seemingly ubiquitous people who are found not only in the Horeb/Sinai region as well as in Egypt, but also astride the great north-south trade routes, in the plains of Moab, and apparently, if the habitat of Balaam is to be placed at or near the ancient Pitru, extending, at least in their influence, as far as the Euphrates River itself (Num. xxii 5). It is obvious that, even to the biblical writers, they were a curious and a puzzling entity, about whom little was known directly, and who were confused or amalgamated with many associated or semi-related peoples. What is said of them is said in relation to other groups and to Israel itself, in all of whom the biblical writers naturally were much more interested. Associated with Israel in the formative national period of the Exodus and wilderness wanderings, the Midianites demonstrably had left their sociological stamp on many of Israel's early institutions, while at the same time they infiltrated

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Published: Jan 1, 1975

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