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| Title: Zechariah ben Avkules - humility or zealotry? Pages: 53-56 Type: Generic Year: 1988 Abstract: "The different accounts of Josephus and the Rabbinic sources regarding the character of Zechariah are explained as a wordplay on the meaning of the Greek name of Zechariah; the author compares the story in bGit 55b-56a with parallels from Seneca de ira III 49,2-4, Dio Cassius 54, 23,1-6 and Plutarch Solon 20" Keywords: Interpretation of the Bible in Ancient Judaism |