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Malachi: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Admittedly, as the last book in the Old Testament, and a minor prophet at that, Malachi is often overlooked by Bible readers. Yet, Malachi’s passionate proclamations and the significance of what he had to say to his people capture the attention of even the casual reader. The message of Malachi came at a time of cultural and religious rethinking for Israel (roughly 500 B.C.E), when God’s people...

hint at the relationship of smaller literary units but may not contribute to the delineation of literary structure within the whole of the corpus. For example, Mal 3:22–24 [4:4–6] may be a secondary addition to the text (so Mason [1977: 159–62]) or original to the prophecy (so Glazier-McDonald [1987a: 243–70]), depending upon the predilection of terms emphasized. More common to discerning the larger structure of Malachi is the thematic approach which seeks to relate the content of the prophet’s six
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