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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...

life (or spirit)’ depends on the way the first clause has been taken, but none is very satisfactory. A suggested emendation which involves the change of one vowel point (šĕʾēr for šĕʾār) turns the word ‘remainder’ into ‘flesh’, though not the word used in Genesis 2:24 (bāśār). This emendation has been adopted by JB, Did he not create a single being that has flesh and the breath of life? and NEB, both flesh and spirit? It certainly makes good sense. God made two human beings one with the specific
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