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The Book of Zechariah and its Influence
About this book
This title was first published in 2003. The book bearing the title of 'Zechariah' is, in its present form, an amalgam of oracles and prophecies stemming from Zechariah himself as well as others. It became part of Jewish scripture, was revered and valued, and was a partiuclar favourite of a number of early Christian writers. Often cited by New Testament writers, this book of one of the most important of the 'minor prophets' is itself deeply indebted to earlier Jewish prophetic texts and has been an important resource for later writers, Jewish and Christian, as they sought to tap their own 'Biblical' material. The amalgam of oracles and prophecies presented in the book of Zechariah offers an ideal thematic focus for the leading scholars in this volume who explore areas of the Hebrew Bible, post-Biblical Jewish literature, and early Christian literature and history (in the New Testament and beyond). The essays examine the book of Zechariah itself as well as its subsequent interpretation by a number of other writers, Jewish and Christian. The essays raise important issues in relation to the influence of biblical texts in subsequent literature and also the broad area of 'intertextuality'' and the way in which later texts relate to and use earlier texts in their sacred tradition.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- 1 The Guilty Priesthood (Zech 3)
- 2 Why is Second Zechariah so Full of Quotations?
- 3 The Literary Contexts of Zechariah 9:9
- 4 Bad Divination in Zechariah 10:1-2
- 5 The Septuagint of Zechariah as Witness to an Early Interpretation of the Book
- 6 The Use of Zechariah in Matthew’s Gospel
- 7 The Cleansing of the Temple in Mark 11:15 and Zechariah 14:21
- 8 Zechariah 13:7 and Mark’s Account of the Arrest in Gethsemane
- 9 Zechariah 12:10 and the New Testament
- 10 The Attitude towards Christians who are Doubting: Jude 22-3 and the Text of Zechariah 3
- 11 Why Would a Pagan Read Zechariah? Apologetics and Exegesis in the Second-century Greek Apologists
- Bibliography
- Index of Biblical References
- Index of Modern Authors Cited