Mesorat%20hashas for Sanhedrin 212:3
א"ל מר בריה דרבינא לבריה בכולהו לא תפיש למדרש לבר מבלעם הרשע דכמה דמשכחת ביה דרוש ביה
[it follows that] <font>he was thirty-three or thirty-four years old</font>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' cf. p. 471, n. 1. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> He rejoined: Thou hast said correctly; I personally have seen <font>Balaam's Chronicle</font>, in which it is stated, '<font>Balaam</font> the lame was thirty years old when <font>Phinehas the Robber</font> killed him.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [According to the view that all the Balaam passages are anti-Christian in tendency, Balaam being used as an alias for Jesus, Phinehas the Robber is thus taken to represent Pontius Pilatus, and the Chronicle of Balaam probably to denote a Gospel (v. Herford op. cit. 72ff.). This view is however disputed by Bacher and others: cf. Ginzberg, Journal of Biblical Literature, XLI, 121.] ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
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