Habakuk-Pescher
The Habakkuk Commentary or Habakkuk Pescher (Siglum 1QpHab) is a leather scroll that was probably made in the second half of the 1st century BC. Was described. It contains in 13 columns commentaries ( Pescher ) on the first two chapters of the book of Habakkuk in Hebrew .
The roll is about 1.42 meters long and almost completely intact. The upper edge is well preserved, but smaller parts of the lower edge and the beginning are missing. The quoted text of the biblical passages agrees very closely with the Masoretic text .
The scroll was found in 1947 in Cave 1 in Qumran on the Dead Sea and was one of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls acquired by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . It is now in the Shrine of the Book , a building of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Web links
- The Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll (Israel Museum)