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3. The Structure of Individual Sections of Zechariah 149
In principle this does not look significantly different from my own
enquiry and results. It is different, in that:
1. I have not put such confidence in form-critical criteria.
2. I have not so much been concerned with separating the editors
and deciding their order and dates, as with the purpose
and methods which have produced the final text.
3. I have, for the most part, been concerned to find a basis from
which to work that would be agreed by the majority of scholars,
so that the method which I am trying to establish might
not rest on the conclusions of one individual scholar.
4. I have departed from normal practice in this section because
of a particular phenomenon (superimposed chiasmus) 1 that
seemed to demand explanation (i.e. my treatment of this
section is atypical; Schottler's is typical).
5. I have worked on the assumption that when a redactor makes
an alteration or addition, then at least he thinks there is a
good reason for it. This explains some differences, for
example, the assigning of v. 15a to the status of later gloss in
Schottler's analysis above.
We must consider this section in conjunction with other parts of
Zechariah in Chapter 4, but we have, I believe, some significant
discoveries to take forward to that chapter: an editorial reworking (I
still have not proved that it is a different editor) of 6.9-15, a concern
to tie this in with the introduction to the whole of Zechariah 1-6 and
links with the final editing of chs. 7-8.
Zechariah 7-8
This section is so large that it is advisable to eliminate common words
before presenting a table. I shall therefore, after some preliminary
remarks, discuss all repeated words and their function first, then give
the table, and finally discuss the possible structures that emerge.
Preliminary Observations
The general structure and movement of these chapters are clear. They
begin with a group of men who come to 'entreat the favour of
1. See pp. 57-59.