1 We must begin with the chapters known as Zechariah. After the two regnal formulae (Zech. 1:1; 7:1), which mark Judean chronology with reference to the Persian emperor Darius and which belong to what I have elsewhere described as Zechariah I, the next set of stereotypic formulae that set off or segment the final portion of the minor prophets occurs in Zech. 9:1; 12:1; and Mal. 1:1. These formulae are not identical, for reasons offered below. Nonetheless, a straightforward look
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