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3. The Structure of Individual Sections of Zechariah 197
Secondly, although the sub-divisions generally conform to the
larger established units, they are unsatisfactory in a number of ways.
There is no clear principle underlying them; they distract attention
away from the concern for peace which is implied in both v. 9 and
v. 10, and even more from the surprising element of the humility of
Zion's king.
In the case of Zechariah 10, which he calls 'The Divine Warrior
Hymn applied to the Inner-Community Polemic', he puts forward a
similar scheme: 1
1-3 (m versus leaders)
4-6 Combat-victory
4 Yahweh equips himself with Israel as his host
5-6a Ritual conquest
6b-10 Salvation: restoration of the scattered people
11 Procession re-enacting the victory of the Divine Warrior over Yamm
(= Assyria-Egypt)
12 Victory shout
This, I believe, confirms what was said above. In particular, the
titles for vv. 4, 5-6a, 11 and 12 are highly imaginative. I can only
conclude that Hanson's attempt to break new ground in this way is a
mistake. Similar remarks could be made about the other sections with
which he deals. 2
/. Willi-Plein' s Prophetic am Ende
Willi-Plein investigates Zechariah 9-14 from the standpoint of textual,
literary and form criticism—and beyond. She concludes that the book
forms a coherent unit as we now have it, and presents a diagram 3 to
show how the parts of the book relate to the whole. Although the questions
she asks and the criteria she employs (e.g. sentence structure and
metre, rather than use of vocabulary) are somewhat different from
my own, it is interesting to see a certain correspondence in the results:
1. Dawn of Apocalyptic, pp. 325-34.
2. Zech. 11.1-3, pp. 334-337, 'A Taunt against Foreign Nations Redirected
against Israel's Leaders'; Zech. 11.4-7 + 13.7-9, pp. 337-354, 'A Commissioning
Narrative transformed into a Prophecy of Doom'; Zech. 12.1-13.6, pp. 354-68,
'An Apocalypse molded by the Inner-Community Struggle', and Zech. 14.1-21,
pp. 369-401, 'An Apocalypse structured upon the Ritual Pattern of the Conflict
Myth and reflecting bitter Inter-Community Conflict'.
3. Prophetic am Ende, p 97.