Full Description
Hebrew tradition presents Haggai and Zechariah as prophetic figures arising in the wake of the Babylonian exile with an agenda of restoration for the early Persian period community in Yehud. This agenda, however, was not original to these prophets, but rather drawn from the earlier traditions of Israel. In recent years there has been a flurry of scholarly attention on the relationship between these Persian period prophets and the earlier traditions with a view to the ways in which these prophets draw on earlier tradition in innovative ways. It is time to take stock of these many contributions and provide a venue for dialogue and evaluation.
Contents
1. Tradition, Continuity and Covenant in the Book of Haggai: An Alternative Voice from Early Persian Yehud - John Kessler
2. Time and Tradition in the Book of Haggai - Frank Y. Patrick
3. The King in Haggai-Zechariah 1-8 and the Book of the Twelve - Paul L. Redditt
4. Life Writing in Ezekiel and First Zechariah - D. Nathan Phinney
5. Zechariah's Spies and Ezekiel's Cherubim - Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
6. "The Whole Earth Remains at Peace" (Zechariah 1:11): The Problem and an Intertextual Clue - Al Wolters
7. Sustained Allusion in Zechariah 1-2 - Michael R. Stead
8. Hoy, Hoy: The Prophetic Origins of the Babylonian Tradition in Zechariah 2:10-17 - Mark J. Boda
9. Zechariah and the Satan Tradition in the Hebrew Bible- Dominic Rudman
10. Traces of Tradition in Zechariah 1-8: A Case-Study - Michael H. Floyd
11. Sin and Atonement in Zechariah's Night Visions - Holger Delkurt
12. An Ephah between Earth and Heaven: Reading Zechariah 5:5-11 - Johannes Schnocks
13. Targum Jonathan's Reading of Zechariah 3: A Gateway for the Palace? - Marvin A. Sweeney
14. The Greek Text of Zechariah: A Document From Maccabean Jerusalem? - Thomas Pola
15. A Review - Willem A. M. Beuken
16. Footprints to the Post-Exilic Prophets - Rex Mason
17. Haggai-Zechariah 1-8: Some Reflections - David L. Petersen
18. Response - Janet E. Tollington
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors
