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Pesher Habakkuk

Pesher Havaqquq

Anonymous / tradition (Qumran sectarian community) · c. 50-1 BC · Qumran (Israel) · other

This running commentary reads the prophet Habakkuk's oracles as coded predictions of the sect's own history, applying them verse by verse to a Teacher of Righteousness persecuted by a Wicked Priest and to the coming Kittim, generally understood as Rome.

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Descends from

  • The Twelve (Minor Prophets) · composed and compiled c. 750-400 BC, from Hosea and Amos at the earliest to Malachi and Jonah among the latest

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