Benjamin
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Binyāmīn · بنيامين
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
Jacob's youngest son called a wolf, closing the series of Israelite eponyms by-named after animals.
he expressed the qualities of some of them by the names of animals, calling Judah a lion's whelp, Issachar an ass, Dan a serpent, Naphtali a hind and Benjamin a wolf.
Adversus Marcionem
Son of Jacob whose tribal blessing in Genesis is interpreted as a prophecy of Paul's career as persecutor turned teacher.
For among those figures and prophetic blessings of Jacob upon his sons, when he had said to Benjamin, Benjamin, he says, a ravening wolf shall feed in the morning, and at evening shall give food — for he foresaw that Paul would arise from the tribe of Benjamin, a ravening wolf feeding in the morning, that is, in his early age laying waste the flock of the Lord as a persecutor of the churches, and …