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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...

In his classic work on Malachi, von Bulmerincq (1926: 87–97) has outlined the range of possibilities for the dating of Malachi’s disputations. Subsequent studies on this last book of the Twelve can be classified under the seven categories established by von Bulmerincq with only slight modification. His categories read as follows: 1) Malachi contemporary with or prior to Haggai and Zechariah 1–8, 2) Malachi before Ezra and Nehemiah, 3) Malachi during Nehemiah’s
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