因此,不同學者提出的瑪拉基書成書時間,從歸回初期到馬喀比年代都有。參Hans H. Spoer, "Some New Considerations Towards the Dating of the Book of Malachi," Jewish Quarterly Reviews 30 (1908), pp. 167-86.
3.
有人提議是猶大省長基大利被殺後,巴比倫大軍南下震壓暴亂,把以東毀滅(耶四十一1~18)。參Eugene H. Merrill, Exegetical Commentary on Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, in www.bible.org引Bruce Dahlberg, Studies in the Book of Malachi (Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1963), p. 202.
4.
另一個可能是,瑪拉基在以斯拉和尼希米之前,他的信息成為後兩者改革的推動力。見W.J. Dumbrell, "Malachi and the Ezra-Nehemiah Reforms," Reformed Theological Review 35 (1976), pp. 42-52.
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這種形式有不同的名稱,包括辯論、辯證、詭辯等。
6.
參Ernst Wendland, "Linear and Concentric Patterns in Malachi," Bible Translators 36 (1985), pp. 108-21.