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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...

difficult reading is preferable; the shorter reading is preferable; etc.), while remaining conscious of Tov’s reminder that “to some extent textual criticism cannot be bound by fixed rules” (p. 309). This reading of Malachi acknowledges the superscription (1:1) and the appendixes (3:22 [4:4] and 3:23–24 [4:5–6]) as secondary. In addition, I have “reformulated” portions of the MT of the book of Malachi in 2:4, 12, 15. Malachi is the last of the books constituting the
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