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Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Three neglected but important prophets receive a fresh and penetrating analysis in this introduction and commentary. For each prophet’s work, Joyce Baldwin first considers the general issues of author, text and message, then offers a passage-by-passage commentary. “Considerable attention has been given in the book to background material, and proper consideration is accorded to the views of those...

interpreted as the self-giving of Joshua and Zerubbabel on behalf of the community, but this is nearer to twentieth-century thinking than to biblical teaching. Probably RSV is correct in taking it to mean golden oil. 13, 14. These are the two anointed (Heb. ‘sons of oil’). By analogy with other uses of the idiom ‘son of’, the meaning is ‘full of oil’; the reference is to the anointing of kings and priests, using imagery suggested by the vision. The two ‘anointed’ were Joshua and Zerubbabel. It is
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