Malachi
Old Testament · Minor Prophets · 4 chapters
The last Old Testament prophet confronts half-hearted worship and unfaithfulness, and announces a messenger who prepares the way.
CovenantRepentanceWorship
Context
- Genre
- Prophetic disputation
- Authorship
- The prophet MalachiMalachi may be a name or a title ("my messenger").
- Date
- 5th century BCE
- Setting
- Postexilic Judah
- Original language
- Hebrew
- In the original
- מַלְאָךְmalak — messenger
- Related texts
- Nehemiah 13 · reforms after the exileEzra 9–10 · the community after the exile