Zemah and Zerubbabel: Messianic Expectations in the Early Postexilic Period
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Zemah and Zerubbabel: Messianic Expectations in the Early Postexilic Period
By (Author) Wolter H. Rose
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sheffield Academic Press
1st April 2000
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Middle Eastern history
Ancient history
Social groups: religious groups and communities
224.9706
Physical Properties
Hardback
290
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
300g
Description
It has often been argued that Zerubbabel, the Jewish governor of Yehud at the time of the rebuilding of the temple (late 6th century BCE), was viewed by the prophets Haggai and Zechariah as the new king in the line of David. In this new study, Rose offers a contrary proposal for the interpretation of the oracles in Haggai 2 and Zechariah 3 and 6. He traces their background in the pre-exilic prophets, pays special attention to often neglected details of semantics and metaphor, and concludes that neither Haggai nor Zechariah designated Zerubbabel as the new king in Jerusalem. Instead, the oracles in Zechariah 3 and 6 should be seen as fully messianic.
Author Bio
Wolter Rose teaches in the Biblical Studies Department of the Theological University of the Reformed Churches in Kampen, The Netherlands.
