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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Malachi
Almost nothing is known about the man. Even his name may be a title, "my messenger." His book is the last of the prophets in the usual order, written to a Judah after the exile where priests offered blemished animals and people held back their tithes, and it ends looking for a messenger who will prepare the way before the Lord.
Almost nothing is known about the man. Even his name may be a title, "my messenger." His book is the last of the prophets in the usual order, written to a Judah after the exile where priests offered blemished animals and people held back their tithes, and it ends looking for a messenger who will prepare the way before the Lord.
Malachi is the last prophetic book in the Old Testament's traditional ordering, and almost nothing is known about the man himself beyond his name, which may even be a title meaning my messenger rather than a personal name. The book confronts a post-exilic Judah that had grown spiritually lazy, priests offering blemished sacrifices and the people withholding tithes, and it closes the Old Testament looking forward to a coming messenger who would prepare the way before the Lord.
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- Malachi 1:1
