This article argues that 1QpHab 2:5–10 and 1QpHab 9:3–7 are later additions to Pesher Habakkuk. As these are the only passages in Pesher Habakkuk which explicitly refer to “the latter days,” I propose that these additions constitute an explicitly eschatological literary layer, which was presumably added to Pesher Habakkuk in the Herodian era. This literary development of Pesher Habakkuk demonstrates that the Pesharim are no static entities, but partake in a living and fluid interpretative tradition.
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See, e.g., Emanuel Tov, “The Writing of Early Scrolls: Implications for the Literary Analysis of Hebrew Scripture,” in L’Écrit et l’Esprit: Études d’histoire du texte et de théologie biblique en hommage à Adrian Schenker, ed. Dieter Böhler, Innocent Himbaza, and Philippe Hugo, obo 214 (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2005), 355–71; Reinhard G. Kratz, “Innerbiblische Exegese und Redaktionsgeschichte im Lichte empirischer Evidenz,” in Das Judentum im Zeitalter des Zweiten Tempels, fat 42 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013), 126–56; idem, “Das Alte Testament und die Texte vom Toten Meer,” zaw 125 (2013): 198–213; Andrew Teeter, “The Hebrew Bible and/as Second Temple Literature: Methodological Reflections,” dsd 20 (2013): 349–77.
Hanan Eshel, “The Two Historical Layers of Pesher Habakkuk,” in Northern Lights on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the Nordic Qumran Network 2003–2006, ed. Anders K. Petersen et al., stdj 80 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 107–17.
See generally Philip R. Davies, “What History Can We Get from the Scrolls, and How?” in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Context, ed. Charlotte Hempel, stdj 90 (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 31–46.
See Jutta Jokiranta, “The Prototypical Teacher in the Qumran Pesharim: A Social Identity Approach,” in Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social Context, ed. Philip F. Esler (Minneapolis, mn: Fortress, 2006), 254–63; eadem, Social Identity and Sectarianism in the Qumran Movement, stdj 105 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 175–82.
Cf. Pieter B. Hartog, “Pesher as Commentary,” in Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the International Organization of Qumran Studies: Munich, 4–7 August, 2013, ed. George J. Brooke et al., stdj (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming); idem, “Interlinear Additions and Literary Development in 4Q163/Pesher Isaiah C, 4Q169/Pesher Nahum, and 4Q171/Pesher Psalms A,” RevQ (forthcoming).
See, e.g., George J. Brooke, “The Pesharim and the Origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects, ed. Michael O. Wise et al., anyas 722 (New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1994), 339–53; Jokiranta, Social Identity and Sectarianism.
This is suggested by Steudel, “אחרית הימים,” 235–36. She draws on Stegemann’s view that the Essenes had calculated the end to come in 70 bce; see The Library of Qumran, 123–25, 128–29.
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This article argues that 1QpHab 2:5–10 and 1QpHab 9:3–7 are later additions to Pesher Habakkuk. As these are the only passages in Pesher Habakkuk which explicitly refer to “the latter days,” I propose that these additions constitute an explicitly eschatological literary layer, which was presumably added to Pesher Habakkuk in the Herodian era. This literary development of Pesher Habakkuk demonstrates that the Pesharim are no static entities, but partake in a living and fluid interpretative tradition.
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