PESHER — (Heb. פֵּשֶׁר), word meaning interpretation. It occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible: Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? (Eccl. 8:1). However, the Aramaic word peshar occurs 31 times in the Aramaic portion of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Pesher — (pl. pesharim ) is a Hebrew word meaning interpretation in the sense of solution . It became known from one group of texts, numbering some hundreds, among the Dead Sea Scrolls.The pesharim give a theory of scriptural interpretation, previously… … Wikipedia
Pésher — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda El Pesher (hebr. פשר, Pl. Pesharim) es un tipo de midrash, se postula que las escrituras están escritas en dos niveles, uno para lectores con conocimiento limitado, y otro oculto, disponible soló para especialistas… … Wikipedia Español
pesher method — /ˈpɛʃə mɜθəd/ (say peshuh merthuhd) noun a method of interpreting biblical texts as if they refer to events contemporaneous with the interpreter. Also, pesher technique. {Hebrew pesher commentary; coined by Australian theologian Barbara Thiering …
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Habakkuk Commentary — The Habakkuk Commentary or Pesher Habakkuk, labelled 1QpHab (Cave 1, Qumran, pesher, Habakkuk) was among the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 and published in 1951. Due to its early discovery and rapid publication, as well as… … Wikipedia
Barbara Thiering — (born 1930) is an Australian writer. In books and journal articles she has attempted to challenge Christian orthodoxy, drawing on claimed new evidence that gives alternative answers to its supernatural beliefs. Her analysis has been rejected by… … Wikipedia
Damascus Document — The Damascus Document (CD) (the Cairo Damascus document) or Damascus Rule is one of the most interesting texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls because it is the only Qumran sectarian work that was known before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. There … Wikipedia
Wicked Priest — ( he. הכהן הרשע; Romanized Hebrew: ha kōhēn hā rāš ā) is a sobriquet used in the Dead Sea scrolls pesharim , fourfn|α times in the Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab) and once in the Commentary on Psalm 37 (4QpPsa), to refer to an opponent of the… … Wikipedia
Jesus and Messianic prophecy — Christians commonly believe that many verses of the Hebrew Bible are prophecies of the Messiah and that these were fulfilled in the life of Jesus, with the rest to be fulfilled by his Second Coming. (A minority, called Full Preterists, believe… … Wikipedia
