MOSOLLAM (cf. Meßullam). - The name of various personages in the Old Testament, especially from the post-exilic period, whose identities are often difficult to determine.
1. Ancestor of Shaphan, secretary to Josiah (2 Kgs 22:3).
2. A Levite descended from Kohath, who assisted Josiah in the reform (2 Chr 34:12).
3. Son of Zerubbabel (1 Chr 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 Ezra on the journey to Jerusalem (Ezra 8:16); he assisted in the verification of marriages to foreign women (ibid. 10:15).
8. A priest married to a foreign woman at the time of Ezra (ibid. 10:19).
9. Two collaborators in the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh 3:4, 6, 30).
For other anonymous personages, some perhaps identical with those listed above, cf. Neh 8:4; 10:8, 21; 11:7, 11; 12:13, 16, 25.