Habakkuk

In a 2014 interview, he recalled being heartbroken at having to give away his two pet parakeets, Habakkuk and Zephaniah.

In the first section of the book, “The Descent Into Darkness,” they are from the Old Testament: verses of sorrow and darkness from Ecclesiastes, Habakkuk, Psalms and Leviticus.

Habakkuk was arrested on charges of possessing a prohibited wild animal and drugs and weapons possession.

There may have been just a shade of the sensational in the manner in which Dupont-Sommer originally propounded his thesis in connection with the Habakkuk Commentary.

Some scholars think he might be Habakkuk, who wondered aloud why God did not seem to answer suffering humanity's cries for help.