TY - BOOK
T1 - Zechariah and His Visions
T2 - An Exegetical Study of Zechariah’s Vision Report
AU - Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia
PY - 2014/11/20
Y1 - 2014/11/20
N2 - This study investigates the exegetical consequences of interpreting Zechariah’s vision report (Zechariah 1:8-6:8) as reflecting the seer’s visionary experience. Although the claim that Zechariah saw visions must always remain a hypothesis, this book aims to show that this hypothesis is reasonable and helps to shed light upon exegetical matters which otherwise would remain opaque. This study sets out to do three things. First, it discusses the key exegetical problems in Zechariah 1:8-6:8. These discussions do not only ask which reading is most plausible in view of its literary context and textual transmission, etc. but also which reading is most probable from a visual perspective. Second, it pays avid attention to the ways in which Zechariah’s vision report describes the transmission of the divine message to the prophet, with focus on the interplay between image and speech in the divine communication. Third, it explores the literary structure of Zechariah’s vision report. It argues that, in seeking to convey Zechariah’s experiences to his readers, the text depicts a three-tiered reality.
AB - This study investigates the exegetical consequences of interpreting Zechariah’s vision report (Zechariah 1:8-6:8) as reflecting the seer’s visionary experience. Although the claim that Zechariah saw visions must always remain a hypothesis, this book aims to show that this hypothesis is reasonable and helps to shed light upon exegetical matters which otherwise would remain opaque. This study sets out to do three things. First, it discusses the key exegetical problems in Zechariah 1:8-6:8. These discussions do not only ask which reading is most plausible in view of its literary context and textual transmission, etc. but also which reading is most probable from a visual perspective. Second, it pays avid attention to the ways in which Zechariah’s vision report describes the transmission of the divine message to the prophet, with focus on the interplay between image and speech in the divine communication. Third, it explores the literary structure of Zechariah’s vision report. It argues that, in seeking to convey Zechariah’s experiences to his readers, the text depicts a three-tiered reality.
KW - Old Testament
KW - Hebrew Bible
KW - Zechariah
KW - exegesis
KW - biblical interpretation
KW - dreams
KW - vision
KW - vision report
KW - Ancient Near East
M3 - Book
SN - 9780567658555
SN - 9780567669179
VL - 605
T3 - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
BT - Zechariah and His Visions
PB - T&T Clark
CY - London
ER -