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Jesus Christ: "Superstar"

Jesus Christ: "Superstar" JESUS CHRIST: "SUPERSTAR" (Revelation xxii I6b) BY MICHAEL S. MOORE Allentown, Pennsylvania Most students of this passage see Balaam's oracle, recorded in Num. xxiv 17, as having been in the mind of the author of the Apocalypse when he penned this short "eyo) elyi" saying. Charles 1) notes that the Balaam oracle (wherein a foreigner, perhaps from Pethor, ancient Pitru, near Carchemish in the Euphrates 2) valley delivers a devastating oracle against Balak, king of the Moabites) was employed Messianically in Test. Lev. xviii 3 and probably again in Test Jud. xxiv i. He hastens to add, however, his opinion that the apocalyptic hope of a Messiah from Levi was soon abandoned "early in the first century" B.C.E. 3). Few of the later commenta- ries 4) would disagree substantively with this explanation for this patently Christological title in the Apocalypse, though Beckwith 1) R. H. CHARLES, The Revelation of St. John, vol. 2, ICC (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, ig2o), ad. loc. 2) A. S. YAHUDA, "The Name of Balaam's Homeland", Journal of Biblical Literature 64 (1945) : 547-51. 3) CHARLES, C2t., p. 219. 4) Some published studies in chronological order: H. B. SWETE, The Apocalypse of St. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Novum Testamentum Brill

Jesus Christ: "Superstar"

Novum Testamentum , Volume 24 (1): 82 – Jan 1, 1982

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© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0048-1009
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1568-5365
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10.1163/156853682X00097
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JESUS CHRIST: "SUPERSTAR" (Revelation xxii I6b) BY MICHAEL S. MOORE Allentown, Pennsylvania Most students of this passage see Balaam's oracle, recorded in Num. xxiv 17, as having been in the mind of the author of the Apocalypse when he penned this short "eyo) elyi" saying. Charles 1) notes that the Balaam oracle (wherein a foreigner, perhaps from Pethor, ancient Pitru, near Carchemish in the Euphrates 2) valley delivers a devastating oracle against Balak, king of the Moabites) was employed Messianically in Test. Lev. xviii 3 and probably again in Test Jud. xxiv i. He hastens to add, however, his opinion that the apocalyptic hope of a Messiah from Levi was soon abandoned "early in the first century" B.C.E. 3). Few of the later commenta- ries 4) would disagree substantively with this explanation for this patently Christological title in the Apocalypse, though Beckwith 1) R. H. CHARLES, The Revelation of St. John, vol. 2, ICC (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, ig2o), ad. loc. 2) A. S. YAHUDA, "The Name of Balaam's Homeland", Journal of Biblical Literature 64 (1945) : 547-51. 3) CHARLES, C2t., p. 219. 4) Some published studies in chronological order: H. B. SWETE, The Apocalypse of St.

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Published: Jan 1, 1982

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