Marvin A. Sweeney
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195133240
- eISBN:
- 9780199834693
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195133242.003.0020
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter summarizes the conclusions to Part II of the study. The books of Zephaniah and Nahum were written to support Josiah's program of religious reform and national restoration. Isaiah, Hosea, ...
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This chapter summarizes the conclusions to Part II of the study. The books of Zephaniah and Nahum were written to support Josiah's program of religious reform and national restoration. Isaiah, Hosea, Amos, and Micah were redacted to support Josiah's program, and Jeremiah reformulated original Josian oracles to account for the later Babylonian exile. Habakkuk was written to address the problem of theodicy in the aftermath of Josiah's death.Less
This chapter summarizes the conclusions to Part II of the study. The books of Zephaniah and Nahum were written to support Josiah's program of religious reform and national restoration. Isaiah, Hosea, Amos, and Micah were redacted to support Josiah's program, and Jeremiah reformulated original Josian oracles to account for the later Babylonian exile. Habakkuk was written to address the problem of theodicy in the aftermath of Josiah's death.
Marvin A. Sweeney
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195133240
- eISBN:
- 9780199834693
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195133242.003.0019
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
Study of the book of Habakkuk has tended to emphasize its condemnation of Judeans and its postexilic setting. A literary analysis of the structure of the book and its contents, however, indicates ...
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Study of the book of Habakkuk has tended to emphasize its condemnation of Judeans and its postexilic setting. A literary analysis of the structure of the book and its contents, however, indicates that it addresses the problem of theodicy in the aftermath of Josiah's death, insofar as it identifies the wicked as the Babylonians. Habakkuk's dialog with YHWH is designed to demonstrate that YHWH brought the Babylonians to subjugate Judah and that YHWH would ultimately overthrow the Babylonian oppressors.Less
Study of the book of Habakkuk has tended to emphasize its condemnation of Judeans and its postexilic setting. A literary analysis of the structure of the book and its contents, however, indicates that it addresses the problem of theodicy in the aftermath of Josiah's death, insofar as it identifies the wicked as the Babylonians. Habakkuk's dialog with YHWH is designed to demonstrate that YHWH brought the Babylonians to subjugate Judah and that YHWH would ultimately overthrow the Babylonian oppressors.
David L. Bartlett
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300100815
- eISBN:
- 9780300128178
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300100815.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter begins with the prophet Habakkuk's cries of anguish twenty-seven hundred years ago. Centuries later, Jesus's disciples, trying hard to live right themselves, have gotten the message—the ...
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This chapter begins with the prophet Habakkuk's cries of anguish twenty-seven hundred years ago. Centuries later, Jesus's disciples, trying hard to live right themselves, have gotten the message—the righteous ones will live by faith—but do they have the faith? “The apostles said to Jesus, ‘Increase our faith!’ The Lord replied ‘If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you.’” The grammar is a little complicated, but what Jesus is saying is not, “If only you had faith the size of a little seed, you could move a big tree”; rather, he is saying, “Since you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can move a big tree.”Less
This chapter begins with the prophet Habakkuk's cries of anguish twenty-seven hundred years ago. Centuries later, Jesus's disciples, trying hard to live right themselves, have gotten the message—the righteous ones will live by faith—but do they have the faith? “The apostles said to Jesus, ‘Increase our faith!’ The Lord replied ‘If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you.’” The grammar is a little complicated, but what Jesus is saying is not, “If only you had faith the size of a little seed, you could move a big tree”; rather, he is saying, “Since you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can move a big tree.”
Timothy H. Lim
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198714118
- eISBN:
- 9780191833793
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198714118.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
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 ...
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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 allusive style 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 the Romans who conquered Judaea in 63 BCE, and suggests that the scroll refers to several righteous and wicked figures, including the last Hasmonean high priests, Aristobulus II, John Hyrcanus II, and Mattathias Antigonus. The righteous figures include those who remain faithful to the Teacher of Righteousness. It is shown that the Teacher of Righteousness was not a deposed Hasmonean high priest, but a sectarian teacher of biblical interpretation, whose hermeneutical function is vested in his divinely appointed role as the expositor par excellence of the community that saw its fulfilment in the prophecy of Habakkuk. The sectarians believe that faithfulness in the teachings of the Teacher of Righteousness will save them in the day of judgment.Less
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 allusive style 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 the Romans who conquered Judaea in 63 BCE, and suggests that the scroll refers to several righteous and wicked figures, including the last Hasmonean high priests, Aristobulus II, John Hyrcanus II, and Mattathias Antigonus. The righteous figures include those who remain faithful to the Teacher of Righteousness. It is shown that the Teacher of Righteousness was not a deposed Hasmonean high priest, but a sectarian teacher of biblical interpretation, whose hermeneutical function is vested in his divinely appointed role as the expositor par excellence of the community that saw its fulfilment in the prophecy of Habakkuk. The sectarians believe that faithfulness in the teachings of the Teacher of Righteousness will save them in the day of judgment.
