Word: habakkuk
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Congratulations on the article. I have also thoroughly enjoyed your symbolic cover composition and recognized the "scroll fragment," having identified and translated this document myself in 1948. I admire the skill of Artist Bohrod in being able to apply the Habakkuk commentary (whose photographic plates were published in 1950), hack out a portion of it, crumple it and tint it in simulating a scroll fragment...
...first seven scrolls included, in addition to two versions of the book of Isaiah and a collection of apocryphal stories based on Genesis, four documents relating to the Dead Sea sect itself: 1) the Rule of the Community (also known as the Manual of Discipline); 2) a Commentary on Habakkuk, which indirectly reflects some of the sect's story because it treats the Old Testament book as prophecy concerning the Essenes' own history; 3) The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness, which seems to be an account of the end of the world...
...total collection of scrolls found thus far, two copies of Isaiah and commentary on two chapters of another book, Habakkuk, seem the most complete. There is a good deal of duplication: the five "Books of Moses", the Psalms, and Daniel apparently were Essene favorites. Significance of the Old Testament texts rests in their verification of the tenth century Hebrew, upon which the English version is based. The Essene copies give an account nearly ten centuries closer to the original. The similarities are remarkable, though not perfect...
Scholars identified among the manuscripts a full text of Isaiah, a commentary on the Book of Habakkuk, a collection of hymns, a scroll tentatively thought to be the Book of Lamech, a heretofore unknown work called the War of the Children of Light Against the Children of Darkness. The manuscripts apparently dated back to the second or third century B.C. and antedated the oldest existing Hebrew Biblical manuscript (Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus, A.D. 916) by more than a thousand years...
...radio broadcast to the citizens of Israel. He was convinced that, "in spite of excessive party fragmentation . . . the people of Israel are far more united at heart than many imagine." Then he concluded with a definition of faith, in his version of the words of the Prophet Habakkuk: "Righteous man lives by his faith. He will not preach to others, will not act the saint by calling on others to live justly, will not look for fault in his neighbour. But he will practice his faith in his daily life-he will live it." Next week Ben-Gurion will begin...