Generate a sentence with "c1" difficulty that contains the following words: moabite, biblical, closer.
The biblical references place Balaam in the context of Moabite hostility to the Israelites' original settlement in Canaan, which would favour the latter alternative, but the possibility cannot be discounted that this association is anachronistic and that the biblical stories originally belonged to the time of some later war with Moab, closer to the date of the Deir   text.