Difference between revisions of "Sheshbazzar"

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ANCIENT SOURCES: see Sheshbazzar (sources)
LIST OF SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see Category:Sheshbazzar (subject)

Sheshbazzar was a member of the House of David.

Overview

Sheshbazzar is very likely to be identified with "Shenazzar, the son of Jeconiah the captive" (1 Chr 3:17-18). He was the hostage king of Judah at the court of Babylon, when Cyrus took power in 539 BCE. To him, the Persian King returned "the vessels of the house of Yhwh that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods (Ezra 1:7) and allowed him to go back to Jerusalem, as governor of Judah (5:14). It was Sheshbazzar who "laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem" (Ezra 5:16; 1 Esdr 6:20; Ant 11:93). The local population of Judah and Benjamin and "all their neighbors" enthusiastically welcomed the returned king and "aided" the projects of construction "with silver vessels, with gold, with good, with animals, and with valuable gifts, besides all that was freely offered" (Ezra 1:5-6).

However, Sheshbazzar's restoration of the pre-exilic order was never completed, under Cyrus and Cambyses II. When 18 years later, under Darius, a new wave of returnees left Babylon, this time they would be under the dual leadership of the Davidic Zerubbabel and the Zadokite Joshua.

Sheshbazzar in ancient sources

Sheshbazzar in Scholarship

Sheshbazzar in Fiction

Related categories

Zerubbabel

References

Sheshbazzar / Steven J. Schweitzer / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), edited volume, 1225-1226

External links

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+*[[Zerubbabel]]
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-''1964''
+*'''Sheshbazzar''' / [[Steven J. Schweitzer]] / In: [[The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), edited volume]], 1225-1226
-*'''Serubbabel und der Hohepriester beim Wiederaufbau des Tempels in Jerusalem''' / [[Kurt Galling]] / In: [[Studien zur Geschichte Israels im persischen Zeitalter (1964 Galling), book]], 127-148.
+==External links==
-''1979''
-*''' The Identity of Sheshbazzar''' / [[Derek Kidner]] / In: [[Ezra and Nehemiah: An Introduction and Commentary (1979 Kidner), book]]
-''1982''
-*'''Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah''' / [[Sara Japhet]] / ZAW 94 (1981) 66-98; and 95 (1983) 218-229 / In: [[From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah (2006 Japhet), book]]
-''1988''
-*'''The Governors of Judah under the Persians''' / [[Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson]] / In: [[Tyndale Bulletin]] 39 (1988) 59-82
-''2000''
-*'''Royal Vassals or Governors? On the Status of Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel in the Persian Empire''' / [[Nadav Naaman]] / In: [[Henoch]] 22.1 (2000) 35-44 / In: ''Ancient Israel and its neighbors: Interaction and Counteraction'', vol.1 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005) 403-414
-''2002''
-*'''The Rise of Zadokite Judaism''' / [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] / In: [[Roots of Rabbinic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), book]], 43-72
-''2009''
-*'''Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel and Their Activities in the Last Third of the VI Century B.C.''' / [[Y. Avishur]] and [[M. Heltzer]] / In: [[Transeuphratène]] 38 (2009) 99-117
-''2010''
-*'''Sheshbazzar''' / [[Steven J. Schweitzer]] / In: [[The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), edited volume]], 1225-1226
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+[[Category:Index]]
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