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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