(This is) the word which came to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, (future) governor of Judah. On the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, the Lord showed me this spectacle there while I was prostrate in prayer before the Lord my God, experiencing a visionary spectacle which I saw by the river Kebar. And as I was reciting (the passage of the ‘Amidah which ends) ‘Blessed are You, O Lord, the One Who resuscitates the dead!’, my heart groaned within me, thinking ‘ the form of the Temple come into existence?’ He answered me from the doors of heaven and said to me, ‘Are you Zerubbabel ben Shealtiel, governor of Judah?’ I responded, ‘I am your servant.’ He answered me and conversed with me just as a person would speak to their friend. I could hear His voice, but I could not see His appearance. I continued to lie prostrate as before, and I completed my prayer. Then I went to my house. The prophetic vision of Zerubbabel ben Shealtiel. Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 1954), 71-88 Cairo Geniza fragments T-S A45.5, 45.7, 45.19, and 45.22 as published in Simon Hopkins, A Miscellany of Literary Pieces from the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 1978). Other manuscript versions of this work are Oxford Ms. repr., Jerusalem: Ktav wa-Sefer, 1980), 2:495-505 Yehudah Even-Shmuel, Midreshey ge’ullah (2d ed. 427-35 for Sefer Zerubbabel. In addition, I have also consulted Adolph Jellinek, ed., Bet ha-Midrasch (6 vols. Eli Yassif Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2001) see pp. 2797, the Sefer ha-Zikronot or so-called Chronicles of Yerahmeel. That manuscript has recently been transcribed and published as Sefer ha-Zikronot hu’ Divrey ha-Yamim le-Yerahme’el (ed. Translated from the text published by Israel Lévi, “L’apocalypse de Zorobabel et le roi de Perse Siroès,” REJ 68 (1914): 131-44. Lévi’s text was based on that contained in Oxford Ms.
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