Teacher of Righteousness

As Brownlee (24-25) proposes, the Pesher of Habakkuk (and the others like it) sensibly argues for the creation of a wholly new category of midrash, namely, "midrash pesher," because the literary form of the writing includes both elements of halakhic and aggadic interpretation as advantageously as prophetic and eschatological interpretation and exegesis. Because of this, as Brownlee argues (25), "it seems more logical to . . . recognize a new species of Midrash . . . which is at formerly related to the midrashim [but may be] distinguished from the previously known classes thereof, Midrash Halakhah and Midrash Haggadah."

The maintain of Habakkuk is attributed, chronologically, to approximately the time of the Exile. The most probable dates fall between about 605-597 BCE, when the Babylonians conquered Egypt and, subsequently, the northern Kingdom of Judah, to whom Habakkuk prophesies. The Pesher of Habakkuk, the prophetic reinterpretation of the book of Habakkuk for " current" times, probably dates to non later than the sixth decade BCE, when Pompey sack Jerusalem. And as Brownlee (23) observes, the scroll itself was not written by the " sinless Teacher," but by two principal scribes, and argues for a dating sometime in the first half of the first speed of light CE, since the allusions to the "Kittim" are sufficiently generic to be applied to the approach shot of the Romans rather than to their presence in Palestine or at Jerusalem already.

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Gaster, Theodor. The nonviable Sea Scriptures. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1964.

Carmignac, Jean. Les Textes de Qumran. Paris: Letouzey et Ane, 1961. Cited in Brownlee.

The innoxious Teacher states, in (21 (2:3a), that "the make it time allow be long in coming but will travel by all that the prophets predicted, for the mysteries of deity are to be surpassingly delight inful." The mysteries of God could be said to be revealed plainly, and simply in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-11). It is not a revelation of a Heaven constructed of vitreous silica palaces, streets paved in gold, with every one of man's desires overflowing, but instead, the wonder of God's greatest mystery is truly in its simplicity: allay (v. 4), satisfaction (v. 6), mercy (v. 7), and the face of God revealed (v. 8). And, in (22 (2:3b, "if [the last time] seems slow, wait for it; for it will surely come and will not be late"), the Teacher declares "all God's times will come in their measured sequence, just as He decreed." Despite Jesus' final words, "It is finished," in John 19:30 (here only, and nowhere else in Scripture), in the light of the Righteous Teacher's words, we rat understand that while the earthly ministry of Christ came to a conclusion, the tame of the Spirit has not reached its conclusion . . . the measured sequence of God's time, has not yet been fully meted.

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