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• Title: Septuagint: Zachariah
• Author : Scriptural Research Institute
• Release Date : January 23, 2020
• Genre: Bible Studies,Books,Religion & Spirituality,Judaism,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 292 KB

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The Book of Zachariah is set in the years 520 through 518 BC, a few years after Jerusalem was occupied by the Persians in 525 BC. Most scholars accept that the first eight chapters of Zachariah were written shortly after 520 BC at the same time as Haggai, however, the later six chapters appear to be a much older prophecy of Shadrach that became embedded in Zachariah at some point. Very little is known about the prophet Zachariah, as the era he lived in as part of the so-called missing years of Rabbinical history. His world was very different from the later Kingdom of Judea that emerged in the 2nd-century BC, as the Israelites of his time were still hedonistic, worshiping the Almighty God (El Shaddai), but still recognizing the existence of the Canaanite gods, along with the angel Iaw Sabaoth, Almighty God's messenger and warrior angel.

Based on the contents of Zachariah's writing, his prophecy took place in 520 and 518 BC, a few years after the city of Jerusalem was occupied by the Medes and Persians. This places Zachariah's life in the middle of the 'missing years' of Rabbinical history, which skips 164 years between 587 and 422 BC. In 457 BC, Ezra the Scribe and the Governor of Judea Nehemiah, formally ejected the Samaritan priesthood from the temple in Jerusalem and rebuilt it. Ezra and Nehemiah, operating under the authority of the Persian King Artaxerxes I, threw the Samaritans out of Jerusalem, and declared they were not Israelites, then set about building what is described in the Books of Ezra as a Zoroastrian fire-temple.

In the Book of Zachariah, Zerubbabel was the governor of the Persian province of Yehud Medinata under King Darius who began rebuilding the temple circa 520 BC. Darius had assumed the throne of the Medo-Persian Empire in 522 BC after overthrowing the previous king, who was either King Bardiya, or a Magi impersonating him named Gaumata. Darius claimed King Bardiya had died after a few months in office in 522 BC, and the Magi Gaumata had been impersonating him since then, and historians have debated the story ever since. Bardiya had assumed the throne when his older brother King Cambyses II had died childless in 525 BC. After having occupied Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Egypt, and Cyrenaica in 526 and 525 BC, Cambyses was en route back to Persia when he became injured and died of gangrene. It is unclear what had been happening in Judea in the interim, however, Ezra the Scribe retold the story a century later, claiming that Cambyses' predecessor Cyrus had free the Jews of Babylon in the first year of his reign, which would have presumably been in 539 BC when he became the King of Babylon, however, he never occupied Syria, Lebanon, Judea, or Egypt, which implies that Ezra did not know the history of the region, or was trying to cover up what happened in Jerusalem.

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