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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...

not represent examples of dialogue in the formal sense because the audience response is offered only hypothetically in the disputation framed by the prophet himself.4 E. Pfeiffer (p. 568) has correctly observed that Malachi represents a later development of the disputation speech form, in fact, the final expression of the form according to Westermann (1964: 125–26). Perhaps better suited to the study of Malachi is March’s more generic understanding of the disputation as essentially “the answering
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