Who Wrote the Book of Zechariah, and When?
Who wrote the book of Zechariah? And When was it written? Before the sixteenth century, the writership of the book of Zechariah was unanimously believed to have been written by “the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo,” beginning “in the eighth month, in the second year of Darius” king of Persia, in 520 BCE (Zechariah 1:1 ESV).
Theories of Different Writers
So, who wrote the book of Zechariah? And when was it written? Let’s look at some of the viewpoints about this.