Poor Zechariah. For starters, we basically ignore him completely. Apart from occasionally trotting out his prophecy about the Messiah riding on a donkey, we don't much care about this book or the guy who wrote it.
Tweeting Zechariah here at the very end of two and a half years of making sense (?) of the Old Testament, I have to confess to poor Zech that this is the first time I've read his book all the way through. Doing so made me quite compassionate toward him. The fellow was so clearly bipolar that he could have strongly benefited from modern meds.
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