Barachiah
Barachiah
(same name as BERECHIAH; Sept. ), the father of the prophet Zechariah (Zec 1:1; Zec 1:7). B.C. ante 500.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Barachiah
BARACHIAH.Mat 23:35 (om. * and; 4 cursives), Luk 11:51 (ins. DSc and 2 cursives). The name occurs in Mt. in a passage, recorded in substantial agreement by Mt. and Lk., in which the Lord declares that the blood of all the prophets (Lk.) or all the righteous blood (Mt.) will be sought from or come upon that generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah. In 2Ch 24:20 ff. is an account of the stoning of Zechariah the son of Jehoiada (LXX Septuagint B has Azariah for Zechariah, but Lagarde prints Zechariah) in the court of the house of the Lord. This incident is repeatedly referred to in the later Jewish literature. In the Babylonian Talmud (Sanh. 96b; Gittin, 57b), in the Jerusalem Talmud (Taanith, 69a), and in the Midrashim (e.g. Echa Rabbati, Introd. ii. 2; Koheleth iii. 16; Pesikta Rab. Kahana xv.) it is recorded that Nebuzaradan slew many Jews in order to quiet the blood of Zechariah, who is called a prophet (Sanh. 96b; Midr. Echa R., Koheleth) with reference to 2Ch 24:19. It seems natural, therefore, to suppose that the Zachariah of the Gospels is the Zechariah of 2 Chronicles. Abels was the first murder of a righteous man recorded in the OT, Zechariahs the last (2 Chron. is the last book of the Hebrew Canon). Abels blood cried from the ground (Gen 4:10). Zechariah when dying said, The Lord look upon it and require it (2Ch 24:22).
But how are we to account for Mt.s son of Barachiah, when we should expect son of Jehoiada? In Isa 8:2 we read of Zechariah son of Jeberechiah (the LXX Septuagint has ), in Zec 1:1 of Zechariah the son of Berechiah the son of Iddo (LXX Septuagint , ). The later Jewish tradition identified the two. So the Babylonian Talmud (Makkoth, 24b; cf. Pesikta Rab. Kahana xv., Targum of Lam 3:20, Rashi on Isa 8:2). Further, there seems to have been a tendency to identify Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo with Zechariah son of Jehoiada, for the Targum of Lam 3:20 calls the Zechariah of Chronicles son of Iddo. We might therefore suppose that Christ spoke of Zachariah, who was really son of Jehoiada, as son of Barachiah, because the Jewish tradition of His age identified or confused the priest and the prophet; cf. the priest and prophet applied to Zechariah son of Jehoiada in Sanh. 97b. In this case the omission of from Mat 23:35 in * would be due to someone who wondered at the Barachiah instead of Jehoiada. Or the son of Barachiah might be an insertion on the part of the editor of the Gospel, either on the ground of Jewish tradition, or in remembrance of the two LXX Septuagint passages, Isa 8:2, Zec 1:1. The fact that this editor elsewhere employs LXX Septuagint forms of proper names, as in , (zec 1:8, 10), is in favour of the latter. Or son of Barachiah may be a later insertion in the Gospel (so Merx). The insertion of the clause in Western texts in Lk. is due to assimilation to the text of Matthew.
The difficulty of the appearance of Barachiah in Mt. has led to other and less probable identifications. Origen (de la Rue, iv. 845) supposed that Zacharias the father of John the Baptist was referred to, and quotes a tradition that this Zacharias was murdered in the temple. Cf. the Protev. Jacobi, 23, 24, which has a different account of the cause of the murder. Others refer to Josephus BJ iv. v. 4, where it is recorded that shortly before the last siege of Jerusalem one Zacharias the son of Baruch or Bariscaeus was murdered in the temple by the Zealots. It is therefore argued that the Evangelist has either blundered by writing of Barachiah in reminiscence of this event, when he should have written of Jehoiada, or that he is responsible for the whole of the clause in which this phrase occurs, and has put into Christs month an anachronistic statement. But, apart from the difference between the of the Gospels and the or – or of Josephus, the reference to 2 Chron. seems to satisfy the data better. The reckoning from Abel to Zechariah is Jewish in character, the of Barachiah may be due to Jewish tradition, and the between the temple and the altar is perhaps also due to current Jewish speculation or tradition. In the Jerusalem Talmud (Taanith 69a) the question is raised where Zechariah was killed, with the answer that it was in the court of the priests (cf. also the same tradition in Midr. Koheleth iii. 16, Pesikta R. Kahana xv., Echa, Rabbati, Introd. ).
Literature.Lightfoot, Hor Hebraic; Merx. Die vier Evangelien; Wellhausen and Zahn in their commentaries on Matthew.
W. C. Allen.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Barachiah
BARACHIAH.See Zachariah.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Barachiah
bar-a-ka (, Barachas; the King James Version Barachias; Mat 23:35): Father of Zachariah who was murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. It is possible that reference is made to Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada (2Ch 24:20), whom Matthew by mistake calls Z., the son of Barachiah. Luk 11:51 omits the name of the father of Z. (compare Zahn’s Kommentar, 649, note).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Barachiah
Called Berechiah, father of Zechariah
Zec 1:1; Zec 1:7
Called Barachias
Mat 23:35