Zechariah: Legends of Old Testament Characters, Chapter 44

This is Chapter 44, Zechariah of Legends of Old Testament Characters, from the Talmud and Other Sources by Sabine Baring-Gould (Macmillan, 1871). The text is public domain. It comes from Wikisource.

XLIV.

ZECHARIAH.

SOZOMEN¹ relates that the prophet Zechariah appeared to Colomeras, a farmer of the village of Chupher, in Palestine, and revealed to him his tomb; and on excavations having been made on the spot, an ancient Hebrew book was discovered, which, however, was not regarded as canonical. Nicephoras repeats the story after Sozomen.²

Notes

Hist. Eccles. lib. ix. cap. ult. ↑
Ibid., lib. xiv. c. 8. ↑

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