Haggai and Zechariah explained the delay by the failure of Judah to rebuild the temple, and so hope of the kingdom persisted, till in the first half of the 2nd century the delay is explained in the Books of Daniel and Enoch as not because of man's shortcomings but to the counsels of God.

In the second year of this monarch the work of rebuilding the temple was resumed and carried forward to its completion, under the stimulus of the earnest counsels and admonitions of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah.

The Book of Haggai includes a prediction that the glory of the second temple would be greater than that of the first.

With Hulsius, Jacob entered into a polemical discussion of the verse in the Book of Haggai: " The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former " ( 2: 9 ), which Hulsius attempted to prove was a reference to the Church.

There was also on the top of the throne a golden candelabrum, on the seven branches of the one side of which were engraved the names of the seven patriarchs Adam, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Job, and on the seven of the other the names of Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses, Aaron, Eldad, Medad, and, in addition, Hur ( another version has Haggai ).

The prophets Zechariah and Haggai both give unclear statements regarding Zerubbabel ’ s authority in their oracles, in which Zerubbabel was either the subject of a false prophecy or the receiver of a divine promotion to kingship.

Anthony Petterson argues that the standard explanation of Haggai and Zechariah ’ s prophesies, in which Zerubbabel was supposed to be the restorer of the Davidic dynasty but never fulfilled these expectations, does not actually stand as an explanation of the final form of these texts.

The author of 1 Esdras might have done so to glorify the power of Zerubbabel, the description of which is unparalleled in Ezra, Nehemiah, and Haggai, as the aforementioned books all discuss the power of Zerubbabel in accordance to the power of the high priest Joshua.

In 1857 he undertook with other scholars a Theologisch-homiletisches Bibelwerk, to which he contributed commentaries on the first four books of the Pentateuch, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, Revelation.

From what is described in the prophecy — the overthrow of the kingdoms of the nations as the first stage in the choosing of Zerubbabel-we may conclude that Haggai sees.

Because of the development of themes in the book of Malachi, most scholars assign it to a position between Haggai and Zechariah, slightly before Nehemiah came to Jerusalem in 445 BCE.

Zechariah ’ s ministry took place during the reign of Darius the Great (), and was contemporary with Haggai in a post-exilic world after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 / 7 BCE.

It is unclear whether Haggai ’ s prophecy claims that Zerubbabel is going to be the King of the Land of Judah or if he is just to build the second Temple.

Both historians ’ interpretations of the prophecy of Haggai appear to understand the term of the “ signet ring ” as being a metaphor for Zerubbabel attaining God ’ s authority on earth.

“ Haggai is expressing the hope of a change in status of the province of Yehud, and of Zerubbabel ’ s

Some historians claim that Haggai ’ s prophecy does not claim that Zerubbabel will become the King of the land of Judah.

Rose also claims that “ in Haggai ’ s passage, one does not find a statement about Zerubbabel being YHVH ’ s anointed, or about his autonomous rule ( given by God ), present or future, and there is no explicit promise that God will make the nations submit to his chosen one.

The passages describing Zerubbabel do mention the prophecies of Haggai and of Zechariah concerning Zerubbabel ’ s actions in the land of Judah.

It seems as though Zerubbabel picked up construction shortly afterwards, in the 2nd year of Darius ’ rule ( August 29, 520 BCE ) ( see Zerubbabel in Haggai ).

The fully apocalyptic visions in Daniel 7-12, as well as those in the New Testament ’ s Revelation, can trace their roots to the pre-exilic latter biblical prophets ; the sixth century BCE prophets Ezekiel, Isaiah 40-55 and 56-66, Haggai 2, and Zechariah 1-8 show a transition phase between prophecy and apocalyptic literature.

Tattenai's letter to Darius: Through the exhortations of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, Zerubbabel and Joshua recommence the building of the Temple.

* c. 520 – 500 BC, contemporary with the return of the exiles and the careers of Zechariah and Haggai.

The Book of Haggai is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and has its place as the antepenultimate of the Minor Prophets or the " Book of the Twelve.

The Book of Haggai is named after its presumed author, the prophet Haggai.

There is no biographical information given about the prophet in the Book of Haggai, so we know no personal information about him.

The Book of Haggai was written in 520 BCE some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in 538 BCE allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea.

Haggai reports that three weeks after his first prophecy, the rebuilding of the Temple began on September 7 521 BCE.

( Haggai 1: 14-15 ) and the Book of Ezra indicates that it was finished on February 25 516 BCE " The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

) The books of Zechariah and Haggai were written during the lifetime of Ezra ( see 5: 1 ), perhaps this may explain the similarities in style.

The prophetic book of the Bible attributed to Zephaniah occurs ninth among the twelve minor prophets, preceded by Habakkuk and followed by Haggai.

Over the succeeding 47 chapters, Jesus is recorded as developing the theme that the ancient prophets, specifically Obadiah, Haggai and Hosea, were holy hermits following this religious rule ; and contrasting their followers – termed " true Pharisees " – with the " false Pharisees " who lived in the world, and who constituted his chief opponents.

The last prophets mentioned in the Hebrew Bible are Daniel, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, all of whom lived at the end of the 70-year Babylonian exile.

The Talmud ( Sanhedrin 11a ) states that Haggai, Zachariah, and Malachi were the last prophets, and nowadays only the " Bat Kol " ( בת קול ) exists.

The Targum of the Prophets was composed by Jonathan ben Uzziel under the guidance of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi ( Jonathan b. Uzziel was a disciple of Hillel, so he had traditions handed down from them-Maharsha ), and the land of Israel quaked over an area of four hundred parasangs by four hundred parasangs, and a Bath Kol ( heavenly voice ) came forth and exclaimed, Who is this that has revealed My secrets to mankind?

In Masoretic works these changes are ascribed to Ezra ; to Ezra and Nehemiah ; to Ezra and the Soferim ; or to Ezra, Nehemiah, Zechariah, Haggai, and Baruch.

Zerubbabel appears in the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah.

This quotation from the Book of Haggai illustrates the messianic expectations that are often associated with Zerubbabel.

Rose emphasizes that the author of the Book of Haggai is associating Zerubbabel with King David.

Kauffman's recent work translates his biological findings to the mind body problem and issues in neuroscience, proposing attributes of a new " poised realm " that hovers indefinitely between quantum coherence and classicality.

A more recent, minority opinion attributes " Amadis " to Henry of Castile and León, due to evidence linking his biography with the events in " Amadis ".

More recent geographers have addressed the subjective attributes of a place within humanistic geography thus crossing the bridge between the objective and the subjective assessment of an area.

More recent scholarship, however, places Fraunce's death in 1592 or 1593 and attributes the Cutler-Egerton epithalamium to Abraham Darcie.

The absence of gas, presence of dust, lack of recent star formation, and rotational support are all attributes one might expect of a spiral galaxy which had used up all of its gas in the formation of stars.

Before the trio leaves, an anonymous transmission from the demilitarized zone attributes the bombing of the Bok ' Nor and the recent kidnappings to a group calling itself the Maquis.

According to this theory, London financial circles protect themselves from competition by using techniques of " controlled conflict " first developed in Venice, and LaRouche attributes many wars in recent memory to this alleged activity by the British.

In addition, a recent book on the massacre attributes at least some of the killing to friendly fire by a lawman who was unfamiliar with his weapon, based on ballistic tests.

Given that the terrain facilitates peripatric speciation, as evidenced by the high biodiversity of the Andean region, the physical attributes of the Chachapoyas are most likely reflecting founder effects, assortative mating, and / or related phenomena in an initially small population sharing a relatively recent common ancestor with other Amerind groups.

Wrattonbully is a region of ancient World Heritage-listed geology, which in more recent times has been chosen to establish a successful wine region due to its outstanding viticultural attributes.

The authority for this is the Mauritshuis in The Hague, which owns the picture and attributes this result to recent scholarship.

However, the images were previously though to represent Shiva, but recent studies indicate that Oesho was Zoroastrian Vayu with admittedly many of the attributes of Shiva ( H. Humbach, 1975, p. 402-408.

His recent work explores the concept of ' ecomimicry ' as designing the human built environment as constructed ecosystems that mimic the processes, structure and attributes of ecosystems, such as ecosystem biological structure, ecosystem materials recycling, increasing efficient energy use, etc.