'Embrace' or, more forcefully, 'wrestle' (Chavaqquq, most likely from chabaq, 'to embrace, grapple') — a name that fits its bearer exactly, for Habakkuk is the prophet who takes hold of God and will not let go until he gets an answer. ⚠ His book is unique among the Twelve: not a message FROM God TO the people but a DIALOGUE, a two-round argument in which the prophet complains, God answers, the prophet objects, and God answers again — the Bible's most sustained wrestling-match with theodicy, the problem of why a just God tolerates injustice. Nothing is told of him but the title 'the prophet' (and, in chapter 3, a musical heading that hints he served in temple worship). He wrote as Babylon was rising (c. 605 BC), a contemporary of Jeremiah, and gave the New Testament its most quoted single line — 'the righteous will live by his faith' (2:4; Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews 10:38), the seed of Paul's gospel and, through Luther, of the Reformation. ⚠ A running commentary on his book (the Habakkuk Pesher, 1QpHab) was among the first Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1947. The Vulgate and Douay spell him Habacuc.