ABSTRACT
I am sure there must be an English proverb which runs, 4Choose a title in haste and repent at leisure’. When Christopher Tuckett kindly invited me to stir myself from retirement, brush the camphor dust from my suit and come here to read a paper, he needed a title before I had really thought through what I wanted to say. And now I see the title I chose staring me accusingly in the face I realize there are at least two things wrong with it. It is based on the old joke about the lady who said she loved Shakespeare because he was so full of quotations. The point of that joke, however, was that Shakespeare has been quoted so often by others in the course of the ‘reception history’ of his work. But while the title of our seminar calls for it, I am not competent to talk about the reception history of Second Zechariah and anyway, fortunately, there are many others here who are. I meant, of course, Second Zechariah’s ‘quotation’ of other sources.
