THE MINOR

PROPHETS

An Exegetical and Expository Commentary

Edited by

Thomas Edward McComiskey

Baker Academic

a division of Baker Publishing Group

Grand Rapids, Michigan

© 1992, 1993, 1998 by Thomas E. McComiskey

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The Minor Prophets published in 2009 as a single volume. It was originally published in three volumes.

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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Contents

Abbreviations

Hebrew Transliteration Scheme

Introduction

Hosea Thomas Edward McComiskey

Joel Raymond Bryan Dillard

Amos Jeff Niehaus

Obadiah Jeffrey J. Niehaus

Jonah Joyce Baldwin

Micah Bruce K. Waltke

Nahum Tremper Longman III

Habakkuk F. F. Bruce

Zephaniah J. Alec Motyer

Haggai J. Alec Motyer

Zechariah Thomas Edward McComiskey

Malachi Douglas Stuart

Scripture Index

Abbreviations

Bibliographical

ANEP James B. Pritchard, ed. The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament. 2d ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

ANET James B. Pritchard, ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. 3d ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

BDB Francis Brown, Samuel R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford: Clarendon, 1907; corrected printing in 1953.

BHK Rudolf Kittel, ed. Biblia Hebraica. 3d ed. Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1937.

BHS Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1977.

CAD The Assyrian Dictionary. Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1956–.

EncJud Encyclopaedia Judaica. 16 vols. Jerusalem: Keter/New York: Macmillan, 1971.

GB Wilhelm Gesenius and Gotthelf Bergsträsser. Hebräische Grammatik. 29th ed. 2 vols. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1918–29; reprinted Hildesheim: Olms, 1962.

GKC Emil Kautzsch, ed. Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. Translated by A. E. Cowley. 2d ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1910.

HALAT Walter Baumgartner et al. Hebräisches und aramäisches Lexikon zum Alten Testament. 3d ed. Leiden: Brill, 1967–.

IBHS Bruce ...