Pesharim - Paperbackby Maurya P. Horgan (Author) Among the Hebrew documents recovered from the Qumran caves are eighteen texts distinguished by the fact that each is a continuous commentary on or an interpretation of a single biblical book. These texts are called pesharim because each section of interpretation following a biblical citation is introduced by one of several formulas using the word pser, "interpretation" (plural: psrim). The documents that are extant