Zechariah is among the hardest of the prophetic books: eight night visions in the first six chapters, then oracles whose imagery is dense with allusion and whose messianic passages are quoted repeatedly in the Gospels. George L. Klein works through the Hebrew text, setting the book in the postexilic situation of a people rebuilding the temple and wondering whether the promises still stood.

Klein gives sustained attention to the passages the New Testament takes up, including the shepherd struck and the sheep scattered, the thirty pieces of silver, and the one whom they pierced. Like every New American Commentary volume it is based on the NIV with the text printed in the body, grounded in original-language research, and written for the minister who intends to preach the book. Volume 21B in the series.