Zechariah

Leslie J. Hoppe is the emeritus professor of biblical studies at Catholic Theological Union (Chicago). He is the general editor of The Bible Today and was the general editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly. He has served as the president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research and the Catholic Biblical Association of America. Fr. Hoppe has been a Franciscan friar since 1962 and a Roman Catholic priest since 1971.

Contents
List of Abbreviations   vii
List of Contributors   xi
Foreword: “Tell It on the Mountain”—or, “And You Shall Tell Your Daughter [as Well]”   xiii
     Athalya Brenner-Idan
Editor’s Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: “She Is a Breath of the Power of God” (Wis 7:25)   xvii
     Barbara E. Reid, OP
Author’s Introduction: Visions of a New Day   xxxvii
Zechariah 1:1-21   Visions of New Possibilities   1
Zechariah 2:1-13   Daughter Zion   35
Zechariah 3:1-10   Restoring the Priesthood   51
Zechariah 4:1-14   Leadership for a New Day   67
Zechariah 5:1-11   Flights of Fancy   81
Zechariah 6:1-15   Envisioning the Future   99
Zechariah 7:1-14   Creating New Possibilities   109
Zechariah 8:1-23   Creating a Just Community   121
Zechariah 9–14      Introduction   141
Zechariah 9:1-17   YHWH and Daughter Zion   147 
Zechariah 10:1-12  Returning Home   167
Zechariah 11:1-17  When Leadership Fails   179
Zechariah 12:1-14  Women and the Survival of the Jewish Community   191
Zechariah 13:1-9   On That Day   207
Zechariah 14:1-21  A Universal Vision  221
Conclusion: The Legacy of Zechariah  239
Works Cited   243
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings   263
Index of Subjects   271
Index of Hebrew and Aramaic Words   279