Tradition and Innovation in Haggai and Zechariah 1-8

The prophets Haggai and Zechariah, near contemporaries, were active at a critical period in Israel''s history. The recently restored Jerusalem community had come through national downfall and exile. Its religious and sociopolitical identity in the Persian Empire had to be established. This volume offers a thematic study of the prophetic response to that situation. The prophets, their status and th...