With rhyming text, tells the story of Solomon's temple, which was ruined and needed to be rebuilt. Zerubbabel, a descendant of David, supervised the reconstruction of the temple on the foundation of Solomon's great building.
The mother of the Davidic messiah also figures in the work as a warrior. Himmelfarb places Sefer Zerubbabel in the dual context of earlier Jewish eschatology and Byzantine Christianity.
... Zerubbabel? Zerubbabel was the political leader of Zechariah's people. He had come back from Babylon with the first group of exiles. He was the governor of the fragile nation of Judah (Haggai 1:1). Zerubbabel's name means offspring ...
... Zerubbabel Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel are two names associated with the early postexilic period . They are both described as leaders of the community , and they both have connections with the rebuilding of the temple . However , some ...
... Zerubbabel was removed from office by Darius or otherwise disappeared . Although the matter is far from settled - some maintain that Zerubbabel's absence is hardly note- worthy in the Ezra narrative - Haggai's oracles suggest the ...