Balaam as the Sophist Par Excellence in Philo of Alexandria:Philo's Projection of an Urgent Contemporary Debate onto Moses' Pentateuchal Narratives

George H. van Kooten, “Balaam as the Sophist Par Excellence in Philo of Alexandria: Philo’s Projection of an Urgent Contemporary Debate onto Moses’ Pentateuchal Narratives,” in The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam (ed. George H. van Kooten and Jacques van Ruiten; Themes in Biblical Narrative 11; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008), 131-161