Type: Writing
Key Passages
Reading List
Introductions
- Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab) | Porter, Stanley E., and Craig A. Evans. Dictionary of New Testament Background: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. electronic ed. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
- Pesher on Habakkuk | The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism. Edited by John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010.
- The Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab) | Nickelsburg, George W. E. Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah : A Literary and Historical Introduction. 2nd ed. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005.
Transcriptions and translations
1QpHab and the Hebrew Scriptures
- Minor Prophets | Scanlin, Harold P. The Dead Sea Scrolls & Modern Translations of the Old Testament. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1993.
Books and Articles
- Brownlee, W.H. (1979). The Midrash Pesher of Habakkuk: Text, Translation, Exposition with an Introduction (SBLMS 24) Missoula, MT: Scholars Press.
- Eshel, H. (2006). “The Two Historical Layers of Pesher Habakkuk [in Hebrew]”. Zion, 71 (2), 143-152.
- Kim, J. H. (2007). “Intentionale Varianten der Habakukzitate im Pesher Habakuk Rezeptionsasthetisch untersucht (Intentional Variations of Habakkuk Citations in Pesher Habakkuk Reception Aesthetic)”. Biblica, 88 (1), 23–37.
- Nitzan, B. (1986). Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab), A Scroll from the Wilderness of Judaea: Text, Introduction and Commentary. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute and Tel-Aviv University.
- Wacholder, B. Z. (2002). “The Righteous Teacher in the Pesherite Commentaries”. Hebrew Union College Annual, 73, 1-27.
- Wood, M. (1999). “Pesher Habakkuk and the Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel.” Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha, 19, 129-146.
- Young, I. (2008). “Late Biblical Hebrew and the Qumran Pesher Habakkuk”. Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 8.