Legends of Old Testament Characters/Chapter 44

by Sabine Baring-Gould

XLIV.

ZECHARIAH.

SOZOMEN^[1] relates that the prophet Zechariah appeared to Colomeras, a farmer of the village of Chupher, in Palestine, and revealed to him his tomb; and on excavations having been made on the spot, an ancient Hebrew book was discovered, which, however, was not regarded as canonical. Nicephoras repeats the story after Sozomen.^[2]

1. Hist. Eccles. lib. ix. cap. ult.
2. Ibid., lib. xiv. c. 8.