Zechariah

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

EDGAR W. CONRAD, Zechariah (Readings; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). Pp. 220. Cloth L35, $57.50; paper L13.95, $23.75.

Edgar W. Conrad eschews historical inquiry in favor of exploring the Book of Zechariah as a literary whole. His hermeneutic is based on a strong emphasis on the role of the reader, whom he holds actively responsible for configuring the text's coherence. (At several points, however, C. admits that the Book of Zechariah confounds the contemporary reader, since it manifestly relates to a world now long past.) A distinctive and welcome feature of C.'s interpretation ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

From fasts to feasts: The literary function of Zechariah 7-8
; ...between the two parts of the Book of Zechariah by relegating chaps. 9-14 to...Edgar Conrad, who treats the Book of Zechariah as a unity within the broader...historical context(s) of the Book of Zechariah in favor of the literary world...
Bringing Out the Treasure: Inner Biblical Allusion in Zechariah 9-14
; ...the formation of the Book of Zechariah and the corpus of the...The Growth of the Book of Isaiah Illustrated by Allusions in Zechariah" (pp. 245-59); Eibert...their location in the Book of Zechariah. M. dealt with these...
Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis
; ...the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory...issue of the authorship of the Book of Zechariah. He argues that all fourteen...attention exclusively to the Book of Zechariah (Zechariah 1-8 in chap. 5; 9-...
Book reviews -- Literary Precursors to the Book of the Twelve by James Nogalski / Redactional Processes in the Book of Twelve by James Nogalski
; ...Micah, Zephaniah, Haggai, and Zechariah 1-8, those works in which...For each, he describes the book's macrostructure, presents...corpus comprised of Haggai and Zechariah 1-8, and a deuteronomistic...activity. According to N., the Book of Joel serves as the crux...The first layer (Haggai and ...
Turban and Crown Lost and Regained: Ezekiel 21:29-32 and Zechariah's Zemah
; ...prophecies recorded in the book of Zechariah have long puzzled scholars...these two passages from Zechariah. I. PAST INTERPRETATION...Zerubbabel (who appears only in Zechariah 4). However, it is nevertheless...According to this view, Zechariah 3 and 6 envisage a form...there is no evidence ...
Prophets of Old and the Day of the End: Zechariah, the Book of Watchers and Apocalyptic
; ...Old and the Day of the End: Zechariah, the Book of Watchers and Apocalyptic...present redaction of the Book of Daniel and possibly proximate...historical sequence he examines Zechariah's night visions, Deutero-Zechariah, The Book of Watchers, and Zechariah 14. (Many readers ...
Zechariah Readings: A New Biblical Commentary
; ...1-85075-900-6. CONRAD READS THE BOOK of Zechariah as a unified document that...is much to commend in this book. Conrad reads Zechariah in the light of its place in...of prophecy implied in the book of Zechariah. For example, the real prophetic...
Themes in Haggai-Zechariah-Malachi
; ...themes common to the Book of the Twelve shows...approach to Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and the whole Book of the Twelve offers...approach to Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and the whole Book of the Twelve offers...DEVICES WITHIN HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH, AND MALACHI Since...Twelve as a single ...
Context and meaning of Zechariah 9:9
; ...THE LAST PART OF ONE PROPHETIC BOOK, Zechariah 9-14, has often been referred...main explanation has been that Zechariah 9-14 is a collection of disparate...who emerged in the shadow of Zechariah, the prophet of the restoration...
Zechariah 9-14 and Malachi: A Commentary
; ...were first attributed to Zechariah ben Berechiah, and that only...period of the formation of the Book of the Twelve, did another...Despite his contention that Zechariah 9-14 possesses "the essential...textual correspondences with Zechariah 1-8 that, in the opinion...the materials of the entire ...