Haggai, zechariah and malachi pdf download download. This summary of the book of haggai provides information about the title, authors, date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the book of haggai. Malachi ministered in support of nehemiahs ministry, just as haggai and zechariah had ministered in support of ezra and zerubbabel nearly a hundred years earlier. It concerns mainly the division of the book into pericopes, the analysis of sentences prose, stichoi poetry, and discourses, and a. Originally published in 1987 as part of the new international commentary on the old testament series, this commentary by pieter verhoef offers a thorough exegesis and exposition of haggai and malachi and highlights the ongoing relevance of. Every hebrew bibleold testament volume in this project is evidence that the day has arrived. The book of haggai is a reminder of the problems the people of god faced at this time, how the people courageously trusted in god. Michael stead on teaching haggai the gospel coalition. The postexilic books of ezra, nehemiah, haggai, zechariah, and malachi were written about the period between 537 and perhaps 430 bc. Book of malachi overview insight for living ministries. In this book, malachi accuses israel of selfishness after the exile and. Bible, hebrew bibleold testament, prophetic literature. Gods people are minnows in the vast persian empire, and the promises of the earlier prophets for a glorious restoration of jerusalem seem far from their experience. Like malachi, haggai uses a number of questions to highlight key issues see 1.
God sent the prophets haggai, zechariah, and malachi to speak powerful words of challenge and comfort to his worldweary people, words. Originally published in 1987 as part of the new international commentary on the old testament series, this commentary by pieter verhoef offers a thorough exegesis and exposition of haggai and malachi and highlights the ongoing relevance of their prophetic messages for the christian church. In this commentary on haggai and malachi, mignon jacobs offers clear and insightful interpretation of the text while highlighting themes that are. Considerable attention has been given in the book to background material, and proper consideration is accorded to the views of. He exhorted them to turn from the uncleanness of their ways and to trust in gods sovereign power.
Through this 12week study, readers will see the centrality of the temple as a picture of god restoring his presence with his peopleand as a foretaste of the promised messiah who would come to bring gods presence to his people forever. The book is ascribed to malachi, whose name means my messenger. Introduction to haggai author the short book of haggai provides all that we know of this man. Indeed, in quite different circumstances, zechariah has a very similar vision to that of amos during the time of israelite. The books of haggai and malachi new international commentary. The historical setting dates around 520 bce before the temple has been rebuilt. He is only mentioned two other times in the entirety of the bible, and only then as historical verification ezra 5. Verhoefs introduction to each book elucidates questions of authorship, style, text.
The books of zechariah and haggai were written during the lifetime of ezra see 5. Haggai, in fact, is expressly designated messenger of elohim haggai 1. Three neglected but important prophets receive a fresh and penetrating analysis in this introduction and commentary. Considerable attention has been given in the book to background material, and proper consideration is. An exegetical commentary haggai, zechariah, malachi. Haggais message to rebuild the temple was passionate, simple, and straightforward haggai 1. For verhoef, malachi is likely the last prophetic voice in the hebrew bible. Most commentators understand the books opening word massa as another generic term for prophecy. Haggai, one of the twelve minor prophets, was the first prophet after the babylonian exile, followed by zechariah and malachi.
Verhoef offers a thorough exegesis and exposition of haggai and malachi two important books of scripture that, unfortunately, are little studied and stresses the relevance of these prophets messages in terms of continuity and discontinuity for the christian church. Malachi is the last book of the old testament and is a book of prophetic oracle. Verhoef says in the introduction to malachi, we have applied a modest structural analysis to the book of malachi. The word of the lord to israel through malachi mal. The books of haggai and malachi the new international commentary on the old testament verhoef, pieter a. In addition, at the end of each section, moore lists a series of practical inferences. The books written in jerusalem after the return from the exile, now commonly called postexilic, are five in number. Aug 15, 2018 haggai, one of the twelve minor prophets, was the first prophet after the babylonian exile, followed by zechariah and malachi. I presume that the reason the authors did not include zechariah is that this book will be dealt with in a forthcoming commentary. Spurgeon, is a capital book, providing exegesis of the text.
The books of haggai and malachi the new international commentary on the old testament. Danielmalachi, stead walks through the three main emphases in the short prophetic bookbuilding gods house, glory, and foundation. It concerns mainly the division of the book into pericopes, the analysis of sentences prose, stichoi poetry, and discourses, and a consideration of various literary devices p. These three prophets are principally concerned with the status of the temple, the new religious hierarchy, and the religious obligations of the postexilic community. Haggai s message to rebuild the temple was passionate, simple, and straightforward haggai 1. It is a postexilic book, meaning it was written after the return from captivity in babylon. Jan 02, 2020 haggai called them not to be discouraged because this temple would not be quite as richly decorated as solomons. Jun 14, 2018 haggai, zechariah, and malachi stephen m. Verhoef offers a thorough exegesis and exposition of haggai and malachitwo important books of scripture that, unfortunately. Book of haggai overview insight for living ministries. Listen to chuck swindoll s overview of malachi in his audio message from the classic series gods masterwork. The name haggai literally means festival or joyous one.
Faithful work after the exilehaggai, zechariah, malachi. Haggai, zechariah, and malachi are known as postexilic prophets as they wrote following the return of the people to jerusalem and judah. Verhoef places each book into the context of ezranehemiah. The book of malachi, the last of the twelve minor prophets, was written by an anonymous writer called malachi, or my messenger. Merrill was distinguished professor of old testament studies at dallas theological seminary where he served on the faculty more than 35 years. The books of haggai and malachi the gospel coalition.
In hebrew, the name comes from a word meaning messenger, which points to malachis role as a prophet of the lord, delivering god. The book of malachi was written between 440 and 400 b. The final book of the old testament, malachi received its name from its author malachi 1. Haggai, malachi an exegetical and theological exposition of holy scripture. Haggai and zechariah had not yet been realized, and 3 their god had not yet come to his temple with majesty and power as celebrated in. Malachi, when doubt of the lords love and watchfulness led the people into sin and distress, addressed their concerns and failings one by one. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading haggai, malachi. The books of haggai and malachi the new international. According to stead, teaching from haggai needs to be grounded in the books historical context and. For haggai, he is active prior to the restoration of the temple and his prophecies are dated to 520 b. The prophecy was probably written sometime between 433 and 425. Verhoefs introduction to each book elucidates questions of authorship, style. Prophecy in an age of uncertainty maggid books 97815926441, rabbi hayyim angel, national scholar of the institute for jewish ideas and ideals, has written a.
The themes are returning to jerusalem after the exile, rebuilding the temple, restoring the wall, and then learning to walk before the lord with sincerity and purity. Besides, the superscriptions prefixed to the book, in both the septuagint and the vulgate, warrant the supposition that malachi s full name ended with the syllable yah. Intro to malachi biblica the international bible society. The postexilic prophetic books of haggai, zechariah and malachi are set in times of great adversity. After thousands of years, the book of haggai remains largely unique among the books of old testament prophets for one key reason. After malachi, the prophetic voice was silent for some four hundred years. Link to eerdmans this new contribution to the nicot series is a companion to mark bodas zechariah commentary eerdmans, 2016, completing the postexilic prophets and updating the older haggai and malachi commentary by pieter a.
Mar 03, 2020 the book of malachi, the last of the twelve minor prophets, was written by an anonymous writer called malachi, or my messenger. His name means festive, implying he was born on a jewish feast day. Jacobs thoroughly and thoughtfully engages contemporary ot scholarship, combining sound exposition of the biblical text with concern for the contemporary context, within the framework of a wellbalanced evangelical biblical theology. The book of haggai, also known as the book of aggeus, is a book of the hebrew bible or tanakh, and has its place as the thirdtolast of the minor prophets. An exegetical and theological exposition of holy scripture the new american commentary book 21 kindle edition by taylor, richard a. The theology of haggai, zechariah and malachi maps the persian empire postexilic judah c. The prophet was active between the two visits of nehemiah, shortly after 433 b. Why study the books of haggai, zechariah, and malachi. The themes are returning to jerusalem after the exile, rebuilding the temple, restoring the wall, and then learning to. Apr 05, 2018 verhoef places each book into the context of ezranehemiah. The volume is a most serviceable contribution to the study of the books of haggai and malachi.
In this commentary on haggai and malachi, mignon jacobs offers clear and insightful interpretation of the text while highlighting themes that are especially relevant to contemporary concerns, such as honoring or dishonoring god, the responsibilities of leaders, questioning god, and hearing the prophetic word in challenging times. Taylor and clendenen deliver clear exegesis on haggai and malachi, respectively. Jacobs is professor of old testament studies at ashland theological seminary in ohio. Haggai declared that gods struggling people needed to reorder their priorities and invest in building the lords house so that gods renewed presence in their midst would bring renewed blessing. For each prophets work, joyce baldwin first considers the general issues of author, text and message, then offers a passagebypassage commentary.
In keeping with the series mandate, the authors base their commentary on the new international version. The prophet haggai successfully persuades a financially strapped people to rebuild the temple, but the speaker in malachi faces sustained resistance to his arguments in favor of maintaining the priestly hierarchy. Nevertheless, the tradition that malachi was the last prophet opened the interpretive possibility that malachi was conscious of the impending end of prophecy. In our conversation and in the section on haggai that he contributed to the esv expository commentary. Haggai is the second shortest book in the old testament obadiah is shorter, and is quoted by the new testament once compare heb.
Because his name means festal one, it is suggested that haggai was born on a feast day. Little is known of the biography of the author of the book of malachi, although it has been suggested that he may have been levitical. Watch our overview video on the book of malachi, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. This was gods warning through malachi to tell the people to turn back to god. These, rather than spoonfeed the reader, indicate how scripture should be developed in practical application. The books of haggai and malachi new international commentary on the old testament jacobs, mignon r. Perhaps written from about 500450 bce, the book is concerned with spiritual degradation, religious perversions, social injustices, and unfaithfulness to the covenant. Haggai was a prophet who, along with zechariah, encouraged the returned exiles to rebuild the temple see ezr. The view has been supported by appeal to the prechristian greek. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Verhoef offers a thorough exegesis and exposition of haggai and malachi two important books of scripture that, unfortunately, are little studied and stresses the relevance of these prophets messages in terms of continuity and discontinuity for. Haggai called them not to be discouraged because this temple would not be quite as richly decorated as solomons. With intertextual discussions about key aspects of the text and attention to competing perspectives, this commentary offers a rich new interpretation of haggai and malachi. This summary of the book of malachi provides information about the title, author s, date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the book of malachi.