Habakkuk or even Havakuk (חֲבַקּוּק, Standard Hebrew Ḥavaqqūq, Tiberian Hebrew Ḥăḇaqqûq) was a prophet in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. A title is even related an Akkadian word for even a plant or a Hebrew acceptation "embrace." He was a eighth of the 12 minor prophets, and belike andy skinner of the Book of Habakkuk, which bears his name.

Practically nothing is known astir Habakkuk's individual history, & tons that i personally surmise is inferred from either a text of his book, which consists of 5 oracles all about a Chaldeans (Assyrians) and the song of praise to God. Since a Chaldean rise to power is dated c. 612 B.C., i potty use that he move just about that instance, making him an early coeval of Jeremiah and Zephaniah. Jewish sources, yet, don't class action him by owning people deuce prophets, world health organization come typically situated together, then these are conceivable that he was slightly earliest than the babies.

Because of the final chapter of his book, which occurs as poetic praise of God, it has been assumed that Habakkuk was in all probability the member of the Levitical choir in the Temple. Contemporary scholars point out, even so, that this chapter is missing from either a Dead Sea Scrolls and has some similarities by using texts detected in the Book of Daniel. It so indicate that these are a late interpolation which influenced a authors of Daniel, & that these are impossible to produce the assumption of Habakkuk's background according to it.

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