Category:Zerubbabel (subject)

Zerubbabel (6th century BCE) was a member of the House of David

Biography

Together the Zadokite high priest Joshua, Zerubbabel led the return of the Jews from Babylon after the exile and laid the foundations of the Second Temple in the early Persian period.

Zerubbabel in ancient sources

Zerubbabel is mentioned in Ezra-Nehemia, in 3 Ezra, and in Zechariah.

Book of Zechariah

Zechariah 6:9-14 (reconstructed text) -- The word of the Lord came to me: "Collect silver and gold and make crowns, and set <them> (MH: it) on the head of <Zerubbabel and> the High Priest Joshua son of Jehozadak; say to him [i.e. Zerubbabel]: 'Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Here is a man whose name is Branch, for he shall branch out in his place and he shall build the Temple of the Lord; he shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne, There shall be a priest [i.e. Joshua] by his throne, with peaceful understanding between the two of them. And the crowns shall be in the care of Heldai... as a memorial in the Temple of the Lord'

Zerubbabel in Scholarship

Zerubbabel in Fiction

Related categories

• Ezra-Nehemiah (text)

External links

• Wikipedia
• Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)

Select Bibliography (articles)

Dictionaries

• Zerubbabel / Bran E. Beyer / In: The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary, 6:1084-1086

• Zerubbabel / Steven J. Schweitzer / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), edited volume, 1359-1360

Studies

1964

• 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.

1982

• Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah / Sara Japhet / In: ZAW 94 (1981) 66-98; and 95 (1983) 218-229 / In: From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah (2006 Japhet), book

1987

• The Persian Period and the Judean Restoration: from Zerubbabel to Nehemiah / Eric M. Meyers / In: Ancient Israelite Religion (1987 Miller / Hanson / McBride), edited volume

2002

• The Rise of Zadokite Judaism / Gabriele Boccaccini / In: Roots of Rabbinic Judaism (2002 Boccaccini), book, 43-72

2010

• The Fate and Future of Zerubbabel in the Prophecy of Haggai / Greg Goswell / In: Biblica 91.1 (2010) 77-90