Zemah and Zerubbabel - Messianic Expectations in the Early Postexilic Period

Informationen zum Autor Wolter Rose teaches in the Biblical Studies Department of the Theological University of the Reformed Churches in Kampen! The Netherlands. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Wolter H Rose, Wolter H. Rose, Rose Wolter H.
• Assisted by: Claudia V. Camp (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2000
• EAN: 9781841270746
• ISBN: 978-1-84127-074-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: JSOT Supplement (Hardcover); JSOT Supplement (Hardcover); The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Israel, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Ancient World, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Bible readings, selections and meditations, Relating to Jewish people and groups, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Social groups: religious groups and communities