Timothy H. Lim

The Earliest Commentary on the Prophecy of Habakkuk

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This is the first major commentary in English on Pesher Habakkuk for forty years. It elucidates the nature of 1QpHab as the earliest commentary on the prophecy of Habakkuk by a detailed study of the biblical quotation and sectarian interpretation. This commentary provides a new edition of the scroll, including new readings, and detailed palaeographical, philological, exegetical and historical notes and discussion. It shows that the pesherist imitates the allusivestyle of the oracles of Habakkuk and also draws on lexemes, phrases, and themes from other biblical texts and Jewish sources. It shows that the pesherist identified the Kittim with… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-108142-2
EAN: 9780191081422
Produktnummer: 33800508
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'989 KB

Über den Autor

Timothy H. Lim is Professor of Hebrew Bible & Second Temple Judaism, University of Edinburgh. He is a world- renowned expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and canon research. In 2018, he was the Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor at the W.F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Jerusalem.