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Hesher vs Pesher - What's the difference?

hesher | pesher |

As nouns the difference between hesher and pesher

is that hesher is a diehard enthusiast of heavy metal music while pesher is an interpretive commentary on scripture, especially one in Hebrew.

hesher

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) a diehard enthusiast of heavy metal music.

    • See also

    * metalhead

    pesher

    English

    (pesher)

    Noun

    (pesharim)
  • An interpretive commentary on scripture, especially one in Hebrew.
  • * 1994 , Robert P. Gordon, Studies in the Targum to the Twelve Prophets, from Nahum to Malachi , page 83
    • Of all the Dead Sea texts it is the Habakkuk pesher (1QpHab) that, by common consent, exhibits the most impressive agreements with a Targum text.
  • * 2001 , Graham Harvey, The True Israel: Uses of the names Jew, Hebrew, and Israel in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Literature , page 33
    • The Pesher on Zephaniah (1Q15)45 interprets Zeph 1:18 and 2:2 as referring to "all the inhabitants of the Land of Judah" (i.5).
  • * 2003 , Geert Wouter Lorein, The Antichrist theme in the Intertestamental Period , pages 196-197
    • According to the suggested interpretation he sinned horribly; his victims were 'only' Pharisees, but the author of the pesher does think that he went too far in his tyrannical actions.