MOSOLLAM (Hebr. Mēsullām). — Name of various figures of the Old Testament, especially from the post-exilic period, whose identity is often difficult to determine.
1. Grandfather of Saphan, secretary to Iosia (II Reg. 22, 3).
2. A Levite descended from Caath, who collaborated with Iosia in the reform (II Par. 34, 12).
3. Son of Zorobabel (I Par. 3, 19), of the Davidic line.
4. Member of the tribe of Gad (ibid. 5, 13).
5. Two or three members of the tribe of Benjamin (ibid. 8, 17; 9, 7.8).
6. Two priests living in Jerusalem (ibid. 9, 11.12).
7. A companion of Esdra on the journey to Jerusalem (Esd. 8, 16); he cooperated in the investigation of marriages with foreign women (ibid. 10, 15).
8. A priest married to a foreign woman in the time of Esdra (ibid. 10, 19).
9. Two collaborators in the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. 3, 4.6.30).
For other anonymous figures, some perhaps identical with certain of those mentioned above, cf. Neh. 8, 4; 10, 8.21; 11, 7.11; 12, 13.16.25. Angelo Penna