Showing posts with label Zechariah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zechariah. Show all posts
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Saturday, 18 February 2012
The Coming King and the Rejected Shepherd: Matthew's Reading of Zechariah's Messianic Hope
Surprisingly,
this is the first full-length study devoted to Matthew's use of
Zechariah by way of quotation and allusion. Three times he cites
Zechariah (21.5; 26.31; 27.9-10), and on at least eight occasions he
alludes to the prophet (23.35; 24.30, 31, 36; 25.31; 26.15, 28, 56). It
is the messianic vision of Zechariah that has appealed to Matthew, with
its elements of the restoration of the humble Davidic king, the smiting
of the divinely appointed shepherd, the creation of a renewed remnant,
and the worship of Yahweh by all nations. Among the questions Ham
undertakes to resolve in this precise and clearly presented monograph
are: how much Matthew's reading of Zechariah owes to his Jewish
predecessors, how much he is in harmony with other early Christian
readers of the prophet, and to what extent his image of Jesus has been
shaped by Zechariah's eschatological hopes.
The Evasive Text: Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader
This
work employs an eclectic mix of structuralist and post-structuralist
theories in a doomed attempt to discover the symbolic logic at work in
Zechariah 1-8's surreal narrative world. Lengthy analyses of Zechariah's
intra- and intertextual logic, or lack thereof, are presented. It is
finally concluded that Zechariah lacks a concrete symbolic logic, defies
grammatical conventions and is 'unreadable' as it stands-and always was
this way. One suggestion is that it was the intent of the author,
conceived of in a postmodern way, to produce such a work. It is finally
concluded that the 'post-prophetic' age of Hebrew literature has much in
common with the postmodern.
Bringing Out The Treasure: Inner Biblical Allusion In Zechariah 9-14
It
is generally agreed within Hebrew Bible scholarship that Zechariah 9-14
is filled with allusions to other books within the Hebrew canon. Rex
Mason's doctoral dissertation in the early 1970s contributed
significantly to the foundation of this consensus. However, although
Mason's thesis remains a seminal work for those studying
Deutero-Zechariah, it has never been published. This volume contains the
first publication of that work together with reflections from leading
biblical scholars who have published on Zechariah 9-14. The volume is
rounded off with a response by Mason to these scholars and a reflection
on his own contribution thirty years ago. In some ways this project is a
replication of the social process which gave rise to Zechariah 9-14, as
the multiple authors bring out of this treasure that which is new and
that which is old.
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