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Zechariah
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Zechariah. Eleventh of the
Minor Prophets in the Hebrew scriptures and Christian Old Testament. The book is attributed to Zechariah, son of Berechiah, and three of the prophecies are dated between the second and fourth year of the reign of King Darius (520–518 BCE).
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Zechariah
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; EDGAR W. CONRAD, Zechariah (Readings; Sheffield: Sheffield...in favor of exploring the Book of Zechariah as a literary whole. His hermeneutic...however, C. admits that the Book of Zechariah confounds the contemporary reader...
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Bringing Out the Treasure: Inner Biblical Allusion in Zechariah 9-14
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Treasure: Inner Biblical Allusion in Zechariah 9-14 (JSOTSup 370; Sheffield: Sheffield...dissertation on inner-biblical exegesis in Zechariah 9-14. The editors have added nine...the last thirty years in the study of Zechariah 9-14, the classification and evaluation...
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From fasts to feasts: The literary function of Zechariah 7-8
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...over the past two centuries have treated Zechariah 9-14 as a corpus distinct from Zechariah 1-8.1 This direction of research was...literary distinctions between the two parts of Zechariah. Scholars noticed that while chaps. 1...
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Turban and Crown Lost and Regained: Ezekiel 21:29-32 and Zechariah's Zemah
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...and prophecies recorded in the book of Zechariah have long puzzled scholars.1 Among...connected to the appearance of ... in Zechariah 3 and 6:9-15. Who is this enigmatic...interpretative key to these two passages from Zechariah. I. PAST INTERPRETATION As is the case...
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Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis...issue of the authorship of the Book of Zechariah. He argues that all fourteen chapters come from the same author (the historical Zechariah, or a single prophetic tradent group...
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Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis...fourteen-chaptered form of the book of Zechariah" (p. 1). Very early on it becomes...chapters may be attributed either to Zechariah or to a single tradent group of which...
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The Evasive Text: Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...MARK CAMERON LOVE, The Evasive Text: Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader (JSOTSup...approach, the literary characteristics of Zechariah 1-8, and his methodological presuppositions...examine the function of incoherence in Zechariah" (p. 15), which makes the text evasive...
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The Coming King and the Rejected Shepherd: Matthew's Reading of Zechariah's Messianic Hope
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Rejected Shepherd: Matthew's Reading of Zechariah 's Messianic Hope (New Testament Monographs...examination of the explicit citations from Zechariah in Matthew's Gospel using a "comparative...both textual and conceptual allusions to Zechariah." On the basis of these he proposes...
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Context and meaning of Zechariah 9:9
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...THE LAST PART OF ONE PROPHETIC BOOK, Zechariah 9-14, has often been referred to as...but the main explanation has been that Zechariah 9-14 is a collection of disparate sayings...persons "who emerged in the shadow of Zechariah, the prophet of the restoration...
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Zechariah 9-14 and Malachi: A Commentary
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 1/1/1997; ; 668 words
; Zechariah 9-14 and Malachi: A Commentary, by...commentary in this series (Haggai and Zechariah 1-8 appeared in 1984). The organization...commentary is as follows: introduction; Zechariah 9-11, the first "oracle"; Zechariah...
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Zechariah
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Zechariah ( Zachariah ) Any of several biblical...from exile in Babylon . In the Book of Zechariah, the 11th book of the 12 minor prophets...the coming of God in judgment. Many of Zechariah's images were taken up in the Revelation...
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Zechariah, Book of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Zechariah, Book of. Minor Prophet . Chs. 1–8, deriving mainly from Zechariah himself, date from 519–517 BC...see MESSIAH ). In chs. 7–8 Zechariah asserts the need for righteousness rather than...
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Chafee, Zechariah, Jr.
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
CHAFEE, ZECHARIAH, JR. As a leading U.S. legal scholar and educator, Zechariah Chafee Jr. did more than anyone else in the...wildly is the greatest joy of life." — Zechariah Chafee Jr. Chafee's interest in free speech...
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Zechariah, book of
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Zechariah, book of The penultimate book of the OT. Chs. 1–8 are the work of Zechariah, son of Iddo (according to Ezra 5: 1; grandson according to Zech. 1: 1), and describe the harsh conditions of life in Judah after the Return...
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Chafee, Zechariah, Jr
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Chafee, Zechariah, Jr (b. Providence, R.I., 7 Dec. 1885; d. Cambridge, Mass., 8 Feb. 1957), educator, lawyer, writer, and civil...
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