In this article, I examine the interplay of transmission and exegesis in Zechariah's textual history, analyzing the strategies that early interpreters employed to create coherence in a difficult text.

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St. Zechariah the Prophet (not the father of St. John the Baptist) can be found on the Sept. 6 page of the current Roman Martyrology.